The Justification for Hyphenation A letter to a typographer friend, in which the author reveals how the finest details of setting type make all the difference when the time comes for reading. We may think of it as only pertaining to grammar or language, but hyphenation operates on an aesthetic level, too, as any typographer can tell you. And how well it's done affects how easy our text is to read.
Hyphenation is a big subject.
We may think of it as only pertaining to grammar or language, but hyphenation operates on an aesthetic level, too, as any typographer can tell you. And how well it's done affects how easy our text is to read. A typographer friend of mine was recently wrestling with the fine points of typesetting a document, and he was getting a lot of differing opinions about how to do it. He was designing and formatting this document in the United States, but it was going to be published in the UK and read internationally. All the text was typeset flush left, ragged right .