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The design is bad because it uses full justification, which hurts readability by making all the lines the same length, which weakens the visual cues for vertica
by mrob 5y ago
The design is bad because it uses full justification, which hurts readability by making all the lines the same length, which weakens the visual cues for vertical position, and makes the spacing between words inconsistent.
But I don't really care, because the site works correctly with Firefox's Reader View, which is better than any custom design because it always looks the same.
- leephillips 5y ago> hurts readability by making all the lines the same length Do you regard all books as poorly desgined?
- mrob 5y agoYes (at least all the professionally published ones I've seen). This is a major reason why I prefer ebooks.
- extra88 5y agoMost books left-justify text.
- leephillips 5y agoHuh? I have about a thousand books in my house. Only a handful have left-justified text. Gutenberg’s Bible was set fully justified in the 15th century, and that has been the overwhelmingly predominate practice in printed books from then to now.
- rjh29 5y agoBooks are usually hand kerned to avoid large, variable width spaces that are hard to parse. Books have complete control over how the content is formatted and displayed.
- N1H1L 5y agoOn the contrary, I find justified text way easier to read and pleasing, as my eyes don't have to scan varying line lengths, but rather go along a fixed line length.