More artistic freedom in presenting a text Justified layout of a textblock can provice structural harmony (where the content and the legibility is secondary) "Just say “no” to justification" (really? That's a terrible argument, but I read it often) Difficult to control rhythm of letters and words "reading the next line" is more difficult when the lines are the same size/width. Different writing systems (latin, cyrillic, greek, arabic etc) result into different rules (adds complexity aswell) Possible valid (technological) arguments for web are: BTW: The original question is not specifically about web or app design. However, your answer will be strongly tied to a momentary "snapshot" of Google results regarding web dev/design. Maybe that's not such a big deal in English (which uses far more separated hence smaller words), but it looks horrible in many other languages.Īnd there's a more disturbing problem: most browser don't support any advanced justification Villevoye Thanks for your response. In web design such CSS settings are also available:īut as I said earlier in this discussion: due to lousy or even missing dictionaries, the algorithms of capable browsers perform a very rough or wrong hyphenation, leaving very large gaps (the space left by every wrapping whole word) to be spread over a text line. These values can subtly alter the overall 'look' of a text, to make it appear more newspaper or magaine style. in Adobe InDesign you can specify the desired and tolerated spacing between characters and/or words, and even allow horizontal character scaling as a method in the setting. There are indeed several typographical settings available in text justification, both in print as in web media.
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