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Non-Breaking Spaces and Other Invisible Characters Typographers Use

Non-Breaking Spaces and Other Invisible Characters Typographers Use

A price on your site wraps so that "$" sits at the end of one line and "1,299" starts the next. A long URL in a narrow sidebar overflows its containe

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Left-Aligned, Centered, or Justified: Choosing Text Alignment

Left-Aligned, Centered, or Justified: Choosing Text Alignment

A designer centers everything on a landing page because it feels balanced: the headline, the intro, the feature descriptions, the list of benefits, e

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Rivers in Justified Text: Why They Appear and How to Prevent Them

Rivers in Justified Text: Why They Appear and How to Prevent Them

You set an article to text-align: justify because you want the clean, bookish look of straight edges on both sides. On a wide desktop screen, it lo

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Typesetting Fractions and Math Symbols on the Web

Typesetting Fractions and Math Symbols on the Web

A recipe calls for "1 1/2 cups flour". A product page lists a screen size as "6 x 4 in". A pricing table shows a discount as "-15%". Each one is read

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Small Caps: When to Use Them and How to Set Them Properly

Small Caps: When to Use Them and How to Set Them Properly

Read a paragraph full of acronyms like NASA, HTML, CSS, and API, and you'll notice how loud they are. Each one is a block of full-height capitals tha

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Widows and Orphans: How to Fix Awkward Line Breaks

Widows and Orphans: How to Fix Awkward Line Breaks

You've just finished a landing page. The hero paragraph looks great on your monitor, but on a phone it ends with a single word sitting alone on the l

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