- Two spaces between sentences
- Dumb quotes instead of smart quotes
- Dumb apostrophe instead of smart apostrophe
- Failing to tuck periods/ commas insides quotes marks
- Failing to kern display type
- Using two hyphens instead of an em dash
- Too many consecutive hyphens
- Large amounts of body text in uppercase letters
- Large amounts of revised type are hard to read
- Using process colors for body text
- Underlining titles instead of italicizing them
- Under process colors for body text
- Failing to eliminate orphans
- Rivers in justified text
- Inconsistent leading
- Indenting the first paragraph
- Indenting a paragraph too far
- Failing to hang punctuation into the margin
- Failing to use to create fractions
- Incorrectly abbreviating a.m. and p.m.
- Failing to provide margins for type in a box
- Faux italic/oblique bold and small cap type
- Strokes that encroach upon letterforms
- Horizontally scaled type
- Vertically scaled type
- Negative Letter spacing
- Bad line breaks in headlines and body text
- Failing to indent bulleted lists
- Failing to align baselines of type in adjacent columns of body text
- Stacking lowercase letters
- Failing to use accent marks
- Failing to correct bad rags
- Failing to use ligatures
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I need to put my 2¢ in here. It would be wrong if I didn't. These are great. It would be great to just know all these things, however, as we are not databases, it is good to have reference links for this type of information. For the record, bulleted lists, technically, should not be indented. In the industry, we have become accustomed to them indented. Consult "Elements of Typographic Style", Robert Bringhurrst.
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