Re:Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design
by kowdermeister on Sunday July 08, 2018 @10:18AM
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> for every fully justified line there’s a left-justified one with the same content
Justification makes sense when you can hyphenate words, that way you can pack more letters, otherwise the whole word would break into the next line.
You can hyphenate ragged lines, too. And that’s not frowned upon by typographers (at least not by all of them). https://practicaltypography.com/hyphenation.html:
”In left-aligned text, hyphenation evens the irregular right edge of the text, called the rag.”
Huh? I would think that, for every fully justified line there’s a left-justified one with the same content that is, at worst, equally wide, but typically less wide.
I think full justification traditionally is done for aesthetics, possibly with a bit of “look what we can do” added (it takes a better typesetter to set a line fully justified than it does to set a left-justified one with equal-sized spacing, even when both cases use kerning)