Manual Full Justification

Matt Gemmell:

The most amazing thing I’ve ever read is a guide to the SNES game Super Metroid.

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Lots of game guides are in plain text, by the way, like this one. No fancy formatting.

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See how virtually all the paragraphs are like solid blocks on their left and right edges? In typography that’s called “fully justified”. In word processors etc, it’s accomplished by evenly distributing extra spacing throughout lines of text, and also by hyphenation.

But in that guide, it’s not done with hyphenation or variable spacing. It’s monospaced text in a monospaced font.