I'm putting my oar in to applaud JohnInKansas's sound advice and to add to his comment about "n-dash" (as he called it, which I would call "en-dash") and hyphens. The en-dash is, in principle, the size of a capital N, and tends to be significantly longer than a hyphen. I use it quite a lot. Some fonts not only make those two different but make the minus sign different again. Even if the glyphs are nearly or exactly the same, they can be at different heights above the base line.

Returning to the original question: the conflict between artistic appearance and legibility can be avoided by making a booklet with more pages and, if necessary, using a thicker CD case.

Richard