Saturday, 5 May 2018

Trending Now: One space after a period? Two spaces? Typography experts could never agree. So science stepped in to sort it all out.

Using eye tracking equipment, researchers clamped the heads of test subjects into place and recorded where they looked as they silently read 20 paragraphs written in various styles. What they found was that two spaces after the period are better than one, forever solving that age-old question. One-space purists, naturally, claim the study is flawed.
 
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One space after a period? Two spaces? Typography experts could never agree. So science stepped in to sort it all out.

Using eye tracking equipment, researchers clamped the heads of test subjects into place and recorded where they looked as they silently read 20 paragraphs written in various styles. What they found was that two spaces after the period are better than one, forever solving that age-old question. One-space purists, naturally, claim the study is flawed.

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