Younger web designers may be surprised to learn that the convention for typing used to require that you use two spaces after a period to help readers see the end of sentences in the monospaced fonts that typewriters used. In fact, if you learned to type on a typewriter, chances are it was very hard to break yourself of the habit (or perhaps you never did). In fact, most typesetting and desktop publishing manuals will tell you that you should only use one space after periods. And of course, web browsers collapse multiple spaces, so it's hard to get two spaces to show up. But it is possible and some people still insist on it. What do you think?

Using Whitespace

• One Space After a Period
• Do you use two spaces after a period?
• The Importance of Whitespace in Web Designs
• Spacing Out Your HTML - Non-breaking Space - Single Pixel GIFs
• CSS Style Property: white-space

Does anyone still use two spaces after a period? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, July 19th, 2010 at 07:31:27.

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