Read more: Making tables look good in InDesign » Read more: Typesetting math in InDesign » Now that you know about it, you’ll start seeing it everywhere. We hope this short article has helped you learn a new typography term and add something a little more sophisticated to your skill set. InDesign’s default mode is not to use it, so just leave it unchecked throughout. If you are not using OMA at all in your document, you may completely ignore the Ignore Optical Margin box. In Indents and Spacing, check Ignore Optical Margin. To undo the OMA, simply go into the paragraph style for any element where you want to stop using it. Or maybe a chapter title starts with a quotation mark and is now looking a little out of alignment. Maybe the bullets or numbers in lists are now sticking out too much to the left and bothering you. Now you’ll notice that every single item in your book (or the current story) that could possibly use OMA is now using it, and this may not be what you intended. The most moderate, least noticeable value is probably the one that’s the same size as your leading, but go ahead and try other size options till you find the one you like best. Go to Type>Story, and click in the Optical Margin Alignment check box.(A story is all the text-no matter how much or how little-that is threaded together.) Put your cursor anywhere in the story.It's easy! Click To Tweet How to produce optical margin alignment Make your #typesetting look more sophisticated with #InDesign's optical margin alignment (hanging punctuation). So if you want to try it, you are in good company. And so it was that hanging punctuation began with the Gutenberg Bible, where you can see large initial letters hanging out on the left and hyphens jutting out to the right of the columns.
(In InDesign, of course, margins and text frames can easily be made visible by simply pressing “w” while nothing is selected.) Some people notice that bullets and quotation marks placed exactly at the left edge make the type appear misaligned. The optical margin is the imaginary line that your eye sees at the left and right edges of the text. Notice that the quotation marks and bullets stick out just a bit to the left of the hard, actual margin. The sample on the left is typeset conventionally, with no optical margin alignment.
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