The article discusses the challenges of justified text in web design, particularly the need for hyphenation to create a visually pleasing layout. Citing insights from typography experts, it emphasizes that while justified text can enhance aesthetics, it comes with complications in hyphenation, which can be unpredictable. Inspired by a social media post, the author collaborates on a CSS approach using specific properties to improve hyphenation, achieving better balance and readability in justified text on Chromium-based browsers compared to others like Safari and Firefox.
Allowing hyphenation can help when balancing text. The last property (only supported in Chromium) sets the minimum length of hyphenated words to 10 characters which helps avoid undesirable hyphenation of smaller words.
If you're using justified text, you must also turn on hyphenation. But hyphenation on the web can be tricky. The results are unpredictable.
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