Centred or justified body text
- Forbidden
- A centred paragraph of four lines. Justified text of any length.
- Instead
- Start-align anything longer than a short heading or label.
What this rule looks like
Why this rule
Centred text moves the start of every line, so the eye hunts for it. Acceptable for a heading or a couple of lines; never for a paragraph. Justified text is worse and has no acceptable case here. Stretching word spacing to force a straight right edge creates uneven gaps and vertical "rivers" of white space running down the block — actively harmful for dyslexic readers, and the reason books that justify are harder to read than they look.
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- Typography
- Bucket
- judgment
- Severity
- note
- Since
- v0.1.0