Use CSS To Improve Your Typography - Clean Rags

Use CSS to improve your typography - Clean Rags

 

When setting a block of text unjustified with a left or right alignment, be sure to keep the rag (the uneven side) balanced without any sudden “holes” or awkward shapes. A bad rag can be unsettling to the eye and distract the reader. A good rag has a “soft” unevenness, without any lines that are too long or too short. There is no way of controlling this in CSS, so to achieve a good rag you must make manual adjustments to the block of text.

 

Hyphenation can also help with producing clean rags, but unfortunately CSS can’t handle this at the moment. There are some server and client side solutions for auto hyphenation like phpHyphenator and Hyphenator as well as online generators.