THE PARAGRAPH55 Letter spacing and word spacing
THE INTERTWINED RELATIONSHIP of the letter and the word dictates that any decision to alter spacing between letters requires a similar adjustment in the spaces between words. In almost all software programs, this proportional relationship is automatically accomplished. There is also a relationship between the width of letters and the word spaces required for the eye to distinguish the end of one word from the beginning of the next; the narrower the letterform, the less space the eye requires.
Columns of type that are set justified will have uneven word spacing in order to accomplish the alignment; good typesetting will minimize that disparity as much as possible. At text-type size settings (up to ...
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