We add line breaks to break up the text into paragraphs: If sentences just come in one continuous stream it makes a long text unbearable to get through: We use periods and capital letters to create a mark between sentences. I've been taught that everything you add to a design must have some function and serve to solve some kind of problem (in the widest sense). (The examples are just quick sketches, don't pay too much attention to the aesthetics.) Every design detail must have a function I'll give you my thoughts about this subject, but take it for what it's worth. I have a set of rules which guides me through the days, but I often see nice typography breaking those same rules. This is certainly a subject with many cultural and individual differences. I basically want to know how stupid I will look for using both indentation and "air" between paragraphs. I fear that the answers will all push their own "agenda", and that there is virtually zero agreement among scholars/designers/typographers. Is this considered silly/ugly? Even though I justify the text, it looks a bit too "blocky" without the indentation.įrankly, I wish I had never started caring about this, because now it's become an obsession and I simply don't know how to format my documents/texts anymore. So, naturally, I use "double" linebreaks between paragraphs: paragraph1Įven when I have the "air" between paragraphs, I still use indentation. However, as I just established, it looks too compact and uninviting for a text I have written and which I want other, normal people to read. ![]() ![]() I guess that's why indentation was created in the first place. Yes, I realize that the book I'm reading right now, and the previous one, and probably just about any book uses the "spaceless paragraph" style, and probably for good reasons as the book would be much thicker if they had a space between each. Even if I indent each paragraph, it still looks way too compact to my eyes. If I don't have "double linebreaks" between paragraphs, the A4 document automatically looks like a compact, uninviting wall of text.
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