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> Justified text is bad on the web. Is there any reason why justified is okay printed but not on the web.
by dsego 2y ago
> Justified text is bad on the web.
Is there any reason why justified is okay printed but not on the web.
- vunderba 2y agoI'd like to see some sources on this. I've seen good and bad examples of justified text, and it's also highly dependent on the font as well.
- wavemode 2y agoBeause in print you would typically use your publishing software to adjust various things, like where hypenated word breaks should happen. This is much trickier in digital media, and usually just isn't done, resulting in ugly word spacing.
- bsoles 2y ago> Justified text is bad on the web. ...so right ragged text is always more readable. I disagree. I like justified text on the web as well as in print. To me, jagged right hand side of the text column is more disturbing than uneven spaces between words. So, you cannot universally declare that justified text is an accessibility issue.
- layer8 2y agoAccessibility issue doesn’t imply universality. Ideally, this should be a user preference setting.
- lenkite 2y agoI believe this will be fixed by this year - you have smart hyphenation going to come natively in CSS. It was always possible using the JS hyphenator lib.