If you come from a heavy print background and you are trying to create content for the web, by default you will be driven to fully justify the content on the screen. Avoid doing this. Justifying text is fine for print but it does not translate well to electronic devices. Justified text on an electronic device is not only difficult to read by people with good eyesight, the content is extremely difficult to read for those with cognitive impairments and there is no control over where words break (and the words do not break with required hyphens, the words just break).
Below are two examples of content so you can see the difference:
Fully justified content (this is hard to read)
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I wonder how much more I would have accomplished in my life up to this point in time if I had not had to sleep. Just getting back 20 years’ worth of 8 hours of sleep each night would mean a surplus of 58,400 hours! With all of that extra time I could have written 2 long running soap operas by now, become an Olympic skier, crossed Alaska on dog sled, swam across the Atlantic Ocean and learned Physics! Oh Raisinets! I have piddled my life away! No! Why?! Why?! Why?! Oh well, hopefully by the time I hit my 80’s, some fabulous little scientist will announce a wild discovery of complete control over the aging process and I can forever turn my clock back to when I was 72 because that is sure to be my best year yet! |
Left-aligned content (easy to read)
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I wonder how much more I would have accomplished in my life up to this point in time if I had not had to sleep. Just getting back 20 years’ worth of 8 hours of sleep each night would mean a surplus of 58,400 hours! With all of that extra time I could have written 2 long running soap operas by now, become an Olympic skier, crossed Alaska on dog sled, swam across the Atlantic Ocean and learned Physics! Oh Raisinets! I have piddled my life away! No! Why?! Why?! Why?! Oh well, hopefully by the time I hit my 80’s, some fabulous little scientist will announce a wild discovery of complete control over the aging process and I can forever turn my clock back to when I was 72 because that is sure to be my best year yet! |
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