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by prosody 940 days ago
I've always liked the visual effect of the East Asian typographic rule that commas and periods at the end of a line hang. Makes the entire block of text look better aligned.[1] Probably matters more for text in those languages since the width of normal text characters doesn't vary as much as Latin text characters do.

e. More to the specifics of its use in CSS, it looks like Safari doesn't support the attribute to aggressively follow that rule,[2] as in the bottom right example of the previously linked image.

[1] https://www.thetype.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/AI-hangin...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/hanging-pun...