Shrunk headings and a turned label

Headings of different lengths shrunk to share one column, and a label turned a quarter turn up the page's spine.

Two things a layout does so that nothing has to be measured by hand. A heading of unknown length — a product name, a customer's company, a translated title — is set at the largest size at which it still fits its column, so three headings of very different lengths come out at three sizes, each filling the same width.

The second is a quarter turn: a block of text set on its side about a point you choose, here running up the left margin like the title on the spine of a book. Both are the same idea — you state the box and the intent, and the engine works out the numbers.

What this example shows

• The largest size at which a line still fits its column.
• Text turned a quarter turn about a point you choose.
• Headings of unequal length brought to one common width.

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