Typographic Design Authorship : Feature & layout Design

Why not indent?
The reason I choose to leave a line of space between every paragraph to indicate an end or start of a section rather than using indent or drop cap is that I am using left align for the body text; therefore if I were using indent, it would most certainly create an even worst alignment which results in poor reading experience. With that said, I did use indent in one scenario, whenever there was a massive gap between text box, I will use indent and a little marker to tell the viewer where to continue reading.

Why not justified?
The reason I did not use justify is due to works spacing. Though it creates a perfect alignment, it cloud also creates some messy river. Several methods have been applied to try to solve this issue such as changing the font size, adjusting the tracking and kerning, and turn on and off hyphenation. However, the result is even worse spacing and alignment. The possible explanation is the available column space is a bit narrow. Therefore, the final decision is to give up justified and set all body copy to left align.

Future opportunities
I recently learned a new function within InDesign that could modify the justification settings so that it could produce fewer rivers. However, I discovered it after the fact; therefore, this is the part where I am not satisfied with my work and could be improved for the following project. If the same issue encore in the future design, I would know how to solve it, because one of the advantages of using justified text is it is more uniform and clean, thereby producing a design that looks more polished and professional.