{"id":2281,"date":"2011-01-16T09:15:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2011-01-16T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T16:15:20","slug":"why-i-love-typographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2281","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love Typographers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because they have standards<\/a><\/em>, damn it, and they don’t get all PC about them.<\/p>\n

“Forget about tolerating differences of opinion: typographically speaking, typing two spaces before the start of a new sentence is absolutely, unequivocally wrong,” Ilene Strizver, who runs a typographic consulting firm The Type Studio<\/a>, once wrote<\/a>. “When I see two spaces I shake my head and I go, Aye yay yay<\/em>,” she told me. “I talk about ‘type crimes’ often, and in terms of what you can do wrong, this one deserves life imprisonment. It’s a pure sign of amateur typography.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What prompted this tirade was an observation that people who learned typing on computers do it. Putting in two spaces after a period (full stop) is the correct thing to do on a typewriter.<\/p>\n

When I edit a piece of text, the first thing that I do is run a search-and-replace for two spaces. I know that I still sometimes put two spaces between words, but that is more of a nervous stutter-while-typing.<\/p>\n

Via Ann Althouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because they have standards, damn it, and they don’t get all PC about them. “Forget about tolerating differences of opinion: typographically speaking, typing two spaces before the start of a new sentence is absolutely, unequivocally wrong,” Ilene Strizver, who runs a typographic consulting firm The Type Studio, once wrote. “When I see two spaces I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-AN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7114,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7114","url_meta":{"origin":2281,"position":0},"title":"Contemporary Pagan Studies at the AAR, 2015","author":"Chas S. 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