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Summary of the article's reasons to use one space between sentences: 1. Typographers and style manuals tell you to. 2. Two spaces were necessary when using mo
by gnosis 14y ago
Summary of the article's reasons to use one space between sentences:
1. Typographers and style manuals tell you to.
2. Two spaces were necessary when using monospace fonts; but now that everyone uses proportional fonts, it's no longer necessary.
3. It's ugly.
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I don't find these arguments very persuasive. I have my own aesthetic sense, and I don't need some authority to tell me what's ugly or not. I can tell that for myself, thank you very much. To me, two spaces between sentences look just fine.
Second, I find it easier to tell where one sentence ends and another sentence begins when they're separated by two spaces. A single space and a little tiny period is just not enough.. especially when reading at high speed, and when there are really long sentences.
If only one space separates sentences, and I want to skip to the next sentence, I'll have to read a lot more carefully than if there are two spaces -- when it becomes much more obvious where the separation is. Using one space in between sentences makes paragraphs look like one long run-on sentence.
- ddrt 14y agoYou can piece apart the design of the website all you want but don't decry the books, they're all useful and accredited. I honestly don't see the use (all of you) in critiquing a squarespace template. Do you guys realize that? That it's a cookie cutter template design? Look at the favicon.
- traeblain 14y agoAgreed that his arguments don't direct my practice. I have to agree with Steve Losh in that all the tools for publishing now days correct for this. And it makes the source material easier to read and parse. Why then does he destroy his argument at the end by rallying his claim on the subjectivity of ugliness. To this day I still find the double space prettier and find print that use it easier to read. 3. is too much of an opinion to claim sound reason.