Microtypography

The layer below font choice. When a page feels amateur despite a good typeface, the defect is almost always here. Hochuli's subject: "all the small things that enhance the legibility of texts."

1. When to invoke

• Text is set correctly by every macro rule and still reads badly.
• Uneven word spacing, visible rivers, ragged edges that clump.
• Orphans, widows, a heading stranded at a column foot.
• Wrong apostrophes, hyphens standing in for dashes, cramped capitals.
• Someone says the work looks "generic", "cheap", or "AI-generated."

Do not invoke to pick a typeface (typeface-selection) or set a scale (hierarchy-and-scale).

2. Required context