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  • RalphWolftoJust Post@lemmy.worldI still find people who do this
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    26 days ago

    It’s about the typeface. Back in the day of manual or electric typewriters, we had monospace fonts, meaning that every character had the same width. A lowercase “i” got the same horizontal width as an uppercase “M”.

    Now we have word processors and proportional fonts, and the spacing after a period is built into the typeface.

    One space after a period is correct, unless you are using Courier (or similar).