Someone asked me the other day: “Why do I double space after a period?” I never thought twice about it. When I was learning how to type, I was taught to always double space after a period and now that I type so fast, I don’t even think twice about it. I Googled, the reasoning behind it, and its something to do with even spacing of letters. Previously, the letter “i” would take up as much space as a larger letter, such as the letter “o”, but now, fonts are smarter and the letters are not as evenly distributed. The double space was to let the reader know visual (beyond the period), that the sentence is over and this is a new sentence.
Now, I think its convention to only have one space. But my habit is so difficult to change. I am trying to type this with only once space after my periods, but its difficult. Its natural to double space and more often than not, I’ve doubled space and had to delete one. Requires too much effort to remember only one. I guess it just takes practice…
On a similar note, I read somewhere that people have difficulty reading words that are justified and that it is easier to follow something that is right aligned. What are your guy’s thoughts?
I like justified because, to me, it feels much more organized and aesthetically pleasing. I like things to look aligned and clean and having text right aligned looks awkward to me with all the left edges ending at different places. Most of my posts in this blog is justified, but this one I’m writing right aligned. Do you see a difference?
Any particular way you prefer to make it easier to read? Do you double space after a period?
2 comments:
I'm both a double spacer and a right-side aligner.
Both are easy to read, it's just habit that keeps me this way :)
On a sorta related tho off topic note..
Did you know persian script is left aligned and read backwards..starting from the bottom of the page.
I thought that was weird.
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