 If text has narrow gutters between columns, table borders, or any straight edge such as an image near to the edge of the text, optical margin alignment should not be used because the proximity of the straight line will break the optical illusion.This technique is related to and sometimes equated with hanging punctuation, though optical margin alignment is not limited to adjusting only punctuation.These values may be suitable for common seriffed fonts like Times New Roman, Palatino, or Garamond.