The left and the right edges are both even.
When it is good: Justified text makes a clean, figural shape on the page.
Its efficient use of space makes it the norm for newspapers and books of continuous text.
When it is evil: Ugly gaps can occur as text is forced into lines of even measure.
When it is good: Justified text makes a clean, figural shape on the page.
Its efficient use of space makes it the norm for newspapers and books of continuous text.
When it is evil: Ugly gaps can occur as text is forced into lines of even measure.
A typographical sophist might add that the most sophisticated systems do not opt for this sort of perfect justice. Letting little things exceed the margins can make the margins appear neater. Perhaps its better to appear, than to be, just.
Interesting viewpoint huh?
Sophist - any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation.
*Note: I took this almost wholesale from my Philo text.