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levocardia | 4 days ago

Butterick says you should never, ever justify text without hyphenation

https://practicaltypography.com/justified-text.html

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doesnt_know|4 days ago

What is an example of a "high-end page-layout program" referenced in that document? I mean, of course I assume they exist for professional type setting, book publishing and such, but I have never seen or heard of the actual software.

syradar|4 days ago

We used Adobe InDesign at my last work, which I believe is an industry standard. Affinity Layout if you don’t want to sell your kidney to Adobe. Scribus is an open source project but I’m not sure how the quality is in that.

lwhsiao|4 days ago

LaTeX or Typst are also good examples.

omnimus|4 days ago

There is only Adobe InDesign. Even though you can make high quality layouts in other programs (Affinity, Scribus) once you get to actually printing in pro printer the whole pipeline is InDesign. It's Adobes secret money printer, software that many don't realize it rivals Photoshop in usage.

albert_e|4 days ago

Thanks for that link! There is a bit more ... justification (pun intended) on that page for this recommendation to turn-on hypenation; and also some valuable advice on choosing spacing between words over spacing between letters.