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word spacing wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 history 2 effect on readability toggle effect on readability subsection 2 1 views 3 see also 4 references 5 external links 6 external references toggle the table of contents word spacing 1 language svenska edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia typographic practice of putting space between words this article is about the typographic concept for the practice of writing with spaces between words see interword separation word spacing in typography is space between words as contrasted with letter spacing space between letters of words and sentence spacing space between sentences typographers may modify the spacing of letters or words in a body of type to aid readability and copy fit or for aesthetic effect in web browsers and standardized digital typography word spacing is controlled by the css1 word spacing property history edit gospel of mark in the book of durrow ireland 7th century ad with distinct spaces between words most classical latin texts were written in scriptio continua a continuous string of characters without spaces to mark word boundaries however some early greek and roman texts used interpuncts small dots to separate words word spacing began much later irish monks first started to add word spacing to texts in the late 7th century creating what paul sänger in his book the spaces between the words refers to as aerated text by the 11th century scribes in northern europe were separating latin text canonically that is with spaces between words just as is done today in standard written text 1 effect on readability edit while spoken language has no audible gaps the visual spaces introduced between words can make reading more efficient 2 when text and spacing are consistent this makes it easier to read 3 geoffrey dowding describes the nature of spacing since the invention of printing from moveable type in the fifteenth century smooth and efficient reading required text to be closely spaced and not en or em quadded 4 the convention of having close spacing has lasted for two reasons because it is easier to read than text which has wider spaces and because it looks better 5 for the first reason adult readers take in words as units and it would be unsuitable for compositors in settings not intended for young children to break the eye s track by introducing great gaps of white between words 5 words must flow smoothly into lines 6 for the second reason the colour or blackness of the line looks better when it has close word spacing otherwise a widely spaced line of text will appear grey 5 language can also be a factor that typographers would take into consideration for word spacing 7 for a language like latin most boundaries are marked by grammatical tags and a smaller space is therefore sufficient 8 in english the ability to read a line easily instead of needing to make sense of it first is also attributed by good word spacing 8 word spacing has the ability to express the meaning and idea behind a word which typographers consider when working on design works and text 9 with a written piece of text the designer has to remember to make sure they do not add too much or too little space between words otherwise it could ruin the texture and tone 6 views edit geoffrey dowding claims that jan tschichold s rule is that spacing should be about a middle space or the thickness of an i in the type size used wide spaces should be strictly avoided 10 he also claims that for tschichold it was better for words to be broken up in order avoid wide spacing 10 his other views on this issue of wide spacing include that it could depend on the typeface to determine word spacing so long as it does not look overspaced 10 the perfect word space is affected by the circumstance at larger sizes when letterfit is tightened the spacing of words can be tightened as well 8 aaron burns a typographer suggested that the lowercase r was the best size for spaces between words 11 edward johnston a noted calligrapher supported that the lowercase o was the more appropriate size of measurement for spacing 11 see also edit letter spacing kerning leading references edit saenger paul 1997 space between words stanford university press lupton ellen 2004 thinking with type princeton architectural press carter r day b meggs p 2002 typographic design form and communication 3rd ed john wiley sons inc p 92 dowding geoffrey 1995 finer points in the spacing arrangement of type hartley marks publishers inc p 3 1 2 3 dowding 1995 p 5 1 2 carter day meggs 2002 p 91 bringhurst robert 1997 the elements of typographic style hartley marks publishers inc p 26 1 2 3 bringhurst 1997 p 26 lupton 2004 p 104 1 2 3 dowding 1995 p 8 1 2 carter day meggs 2002 p 92 external links edit the school of close spacing excerpt from book typography by ari rafaeli external references edit finer points in the spacing arrangement of type geoffrey dowding retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title word_spacing oldid 1349986746 categories typography whitespace hidden categories articles with short description short description matches wikidata this page was last edited on 19 april 2026 at 19 50 utc page was rendered with parsoid text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike 4 0 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