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by LarryMade2 2017 days ago
Most people don't really know what's good for them...

Justification falls apart on mobile web where too few words can fit on a line and then you get big gaps between words.

On longer lines, a ragged right edge makes a good visual guide to keep the eye on the right line while reading a wide justified paragraph is hard to keep track of while reading.

https://medium.com/@meetchopz/10-bad-typography-habits-that-...

2 comments

This depends on the font size and even then I regularly read standard ebooks in elinks on my pinephone at night with a width of something like 20 chars because xterm is so zoomed.

And I like it!

Interesting, I've never thought about it this way — thanks for pointing this out.