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… But I like to the two spaces. It looks cleaner and brings more separation to the sentences. So thanks for the update, but NO Thanks 🤪😂
One space is now the norm. Two spaces leaves too much white space.
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2 spaces for life.
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Only acceptable word settings: 1” margins, single spaced, times new Roman 12 font, double space after period, and serial comma. Everything else is garbage.
Is this comment sarcasm?
Pro
Yeah, I know…but I still use 2 spaces. That’s how I was taught. It’s not really broken so no reason to fix it.
Chief
Ctrl+f “. “
Replace with “. “
For the record. This was one of my secrets to hitting my word limit on college essays 👍
Page length hack
Looks better with 2
Pro
I don’t even understand this
I’m 34. My dad taught me two spaces after a period when I first learned to type, around age 6 or 7. Never heard that I should stop it until maybe 2018. Tough habit to unlearn
Chief
Caught a kid having his mom write his essays because certain sentences had double spaces.
Two spaces is a pet peeve for me, it’s simply not the way at this point. I send back docs with that as a correction every time
It is 100% minor — which is why it shouldn’t be a big deal to do the quick fix. It’s really not difficult to do the fix before submitting work. Quick and easy
To your point, every client is different. If the client asked for something small from a format perspective, then yeah it is absolutely worth it to make part of your practice when finalizing deliverables
I am 29 and I will double space until the day I die
One is so much better. Every designer does one (for magazines, books, etc). If you’re using justified text, two spaces messes up the justification.
Pro
^for the win 🏆
Law school drilled this into me, I will never not use two spaces.
Sorry just curious about this — I saw several documents and memos with double spaces, which I manually amended every time I saw them. Is there a technical rationale behind this? Or just a practice?
Two spaces is correct when using a typewriter. It has never, ever been correct in proper typesetting (pretty much anything actually published by a professional). Two spaces would still be correct when using a monospaced font (courier) on a typewriter but is never correct when using a proportional font (TNR, almost all modern fonts). A professional typesetting program has the correct spacing built into the font design so entering two spaces would look like “See Bob run. See cat run after Bob.” Open any professionally published book/newspaper/magazine and you’ll see there isn’t that much space (unless it full justification and there is lots of extra spacing between words/sentences).
Terribly longer answer follows for those that care:
If you can find an actual typewriter, take a look at the size of the actual letter/punctuation keys (the part that hits the paper not one one you type on). The space between characters with a monospaced font (all letters take up the same space which typewriters use) is supposed to be equal to the space a capital M takes. Each key for a letter is the same size, doesn’t matter if it’s an M or an l. The space around the letter is always the same and each character typed advances the typewriter an equal space forward. However, the . and ! keys on the typewriter only take up only a third of a M space, hence requiring typist to type two spaces vs one. This allows for the “.” key to be used as a decimal point (3.42) where no space should be added as well as a period (See Bob run. See Cat pounce on Bob.)
With word processing programs, came the easy ability for people to use true proportional fonts. These fonts don’t use the capital M as the standard spacing between letters, the space “around” each letter is based on the character itself—an M takes up more space than an i, the two “l”s in shall take up less space than one M. The space between a terminating punctuation mark and the next character is *not* supposed to equal a capital M anymore. It is supposed to be one tap of the space bar.
Back in the actual typesetting with individual characters set in forms to be inked and pressed, they set type with one full space after terminating punctuation (once standards were set—there are old typeset books out there with little to no spacing, between sentences and even between words).
Now Legal style, all I’ll say is lawyers are an odd bunch with their own rules.
I am appalled that people use 2 spaces after a period.. no need to hit a page limit, this ain’t college anymore!!
39. Two spaces. No apologies.
I still do 2 spaces. Don’t tell me how to live my life! 😜
I type 90 wpm and my kiddos yell at me all the time when they see me put the two spaces. I just don’t have the energy to retrain my brain to one after a lifetime of 2. Two looks better in my opinion.
I had a schoolteacher that would dock marks if we didn’t do this on essays!