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== Use ==
[[File:Optical Margin Alignment.png|thumb|Text is outdented into margins]]
It is designed to be used for body text, not for artistic text, table text, or [[headline]]s. It also works well for [[Block quotationsquotation|block quotes]], which benefit from “hung punctuation.” The “Smart Quotes” are outdented 100% into the margin or paragraph indent, so that subsequent lines of text align with the first character in the quotation.
 
The optimal values used for the outdents is font dependent. A [[typeface]] that has capital A, V, W, and Y with vertical sides, needs no outdents for these letters, but the capital T and punctuation will still benefit from using Optical Margin Alignment.