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jetpks · 2024-03-31 03:49:25

the extra dot is easily hand waved away as a mistake. a non breaking space looks intentional.

Dylan16807 | karma 31639 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2015-07-13 22:45:19+00:00

Allowing multiple spaces makes sense, I suppose, but why support a dot stuck there? Seems like an oversight.

celoyd | karma 1251 | avg karma 4.44 · | 2010-05-12 03:07:27+00:00

They’re en dashes, which should have a space on either side when used that way, so he’s still doing it wrong.

freyr | karma 4677 | avg karma 4.29 · | 2015-05-28 22:47:27+00:00

Putting dots in the space between words makes it harder to distinguish word boundaries, which makes the text difficult to read.

If design hinders usability, it's not good design.

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downerending | karma 3164 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2019-12-02 17:44:09

The spacing thing is absolutely baffling. It's actually more work to get it wrong.

tyingq | karma 59102 | avg karma 3.47 · | 2016-01-20 04:55:07+00:00

Ah, yes, an errant space. Or a missing period. My humblest apologies. Looks like you figured out what I meant though.

msujaws | karma 564 | avg karma 7.23 · | 2014-07-12 12:37:21

There is a space following one of the slashes.

purple-again | karma 913 | avg karma 2.27 · | 2020-12-05 21:33:28+00:00

Honestly I am literally shaking with rage over the top center image. Put so damn much effort into beautiful symmetry and then just said fuck it with the one blank space to the left of “Welcome to” but TWO blank spaces to the right of it? I mean wtf was he/she thinking?

Just do “ Welcome “

/s

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NikkiA | karma 1999 | avg karma 1.21 · | 2023-06-25 14:14:46

It's 'inverted morse', the space length becomes the dot and dash. With a double/triple length space for a word break

Kiro | karma 10888 | avg karma 1.51 · | 2024-04-29 06:21:09

What's up with the space before question marks? It's really distracting.

gaur | karma 1131 | avg karma 3.53 · | 2016-03-27 16:13:23+00:00

What on earth possesses people to insert extra spaces between all the operators? It's so ugly and unnecessary.

emmelaich | karma 6824 | avg karma 1.64 · | 2024-03-31 02:15:09

I wonder why they didn't use a non-breaking space or similar. I guess it's possible a nbsp would stand out even more.

WiseWeasel | karma 2803 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2011-02-03 18:52:17+00:00

Agreed; two spaces looks like crap, and I've always quietly removed any extra spaces from all the copy my company has published. It just seems so blatantly wrong and inefficient that it blows my mind that otherwise seemingly intelligent people would consciously perpetuate this anachronistic folly.

kaoD | karma 3508 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2013-10-19 14:57:39

It's not that readable if you didn't realize I actually fixed your extra }. I expected you to nitpick about it! :P

PS: spaces obviously.

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NullPrefix | karma 2283 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2018-09-02 06:19:54

You are user spacing it wrong.

schoen | karma 20422 | avg karma 3.65 · | 2019-10-18 13:04:29

This explanation of where the non-breaking space came from feels really likely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21290159

EduardoBautista | karma 2869 | avg karma 4.29 · | 2017-01-19 03:24:03+00:00

That's because the spaces are not monospaced.

anigbrowl | karma 91010 | avg karma 3.36 · | 2023-03-31 15:21:43

Yes, I'm joking. I also feel hurt by 2 space indents.

weaksauce | karma 5956 | avg karma 2.07 · | 2014-05-29 18:21:08

Not that I think it was intentional, but putting something in that is not grammatically correct like the op version and with no spacing is much stronger than picking random letters from the words to prove a point.

haploid | karma 671 | avg karma 3.09 · | 2011-01-14 14:21:44+00:00

It seems that the reason it's wrong is that typographers say it is. The author has not given an actual reason, other than appeal to authority.

I will continue to double-space until I'm dead.

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