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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3704 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Never Put Two Spaces After A Period - Business Insider

Fuck that. Until you have control over the font your words are rendered in, you are dealing with a monospaced font. Considering every browser and email client handles text differently, you use two spaces. If you're working in InDesign you can fixate on it. If you're working in Chrome?

Word autocorrected sentence spacing to two from the first instance it corrected grammar through Word 2000 at least. In applications that allow justified text, providing two spaces tells the software to give that "space" more weight. Amusingly enough, the linked article has bigger spaces between words than between sentences in many cases.

    Here's the thing, though: Monospaced fonts went out in the 1970s.

Tell that to Reddit, 4chan, or bash.org.





user-inactivated  ·  3703 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    If you're working in InDesign you can fixate on it.

Spent four years of my fucking life in ID fixating on spaces after periods, kerning, miniscule widths of picas ... now it's ingrained. Curse.