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I concur. I've been trained that seeing a break in the underline means I'm looking at a phrase or fragment broken into multiple links. Reading the whole page di
by Eiriksmal 12y ago
I concur. I've been trained that seeing a break in the underline means I'm looking at a phrase or fragment broken into multiple links. Reading the whole page did nothing to break in my brain to the concept. I do not agree with Mr. Schwartz that this style will "[i]mprove the typography on your website."
As an aside, I love Butterick's link style, what with the triangle and the background-changing color hovers, but that's too complicated for a general audience--especially one reading on the newest touch-screen whatsit that can't show you the "◊Amazon" word is actually a link to Amazon until you accidentally tap it.
But that's a great style for reading long-form articles because your brain isn't constantly interrupting you to say, "Ah, please compulsively hover over that underlined text so I can see what website this insightful blogpost is referencing."