Does anybody know of a way to justify the text in CS games? I know I can do that by altering the CSS files, but I know I shouldn’t really mess around with those.
I suppose there are completely justifiable reasons for CS to display the way it does (readability is one of the major points, no?), and perhaps it’s just my my purely academic background, but I’d like my #main text to be justified.
Is there some command I’m not aware of? Will Hosted Games approve of custom CSS files? Is the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything really 42?
Butterick’s Practical Typography states that “In justified text, hyphenation is mandatory.” It’s important because long unhyphenated words can result in short lines mid-paragraph that appear stretched.
In my experience, full justification with automatic hyphenation is hard to read for non-native speakers, as they have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to glue hyphenated words back together and figure out what they should mean.
I’m willing to consider it when Chrome supports automatic hyphenization on Windows, but until then, I think it’s a bad idea.
Justification is a matter of personal preference. It is not a signifier of professional typography. True, most (but not all) books justify the text. But most major U.S. newspapers use a mix of justified and left-aligned text. Same with magazines.
Keep in mind that the justification engine of a word processor or web browser is rudimentary compared to that of a professional page-layout program. So if I’m making a word-processor document or web page, I’ll always left-align the text, because justification can look clunky and coarse. Whereas if I’m using a professional layout program, I might justify.
Ah, I see.
Yea, I think it’s just a matter of style when it comes to text alignment. It’s just that I’m used to justify text when I’m creating a paper report or something