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Re:Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design by rangibaby on Sunday July 08, 2018 @09:17AM (#17483638)
Justification was used because people thought equal width columns looked better. Columns of text are generally unnessary in the digital world because you can have one infinitely long column.

In Grid Systems in Graphic Design (1981) the author argued against justification because he thought having spaces of different lengths between words created a poor rhythm (I will find the exact quote tomorrow).

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Re:Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design by bovine3dom on Sunday July 08, 2018 @09:50AM (#17483783)
But most publications using justification initially didn't use columns, e.g. books.

I do think multi-column layouts are sorely underutilised on the web. Modern websites make a mockery of desktop wide-screen displays where they use about a quarter of the screen and fill the rest with adverts.

Maybe I'm just a contrarian.

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Re:Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design by adregan on Sunday July 08, 2018 @11:25AM (#17484219)
Don't books have 2 columns for each spread of pages? You still have the potential for there to be uneven columns.
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