A Love Letter to Layout

How does it help the reader? Let me count the ways...

An extract from my work-in-progress.

Let’s say there’s a paragraph.

It might end, it might begin. Some of the sentences might take longer than others, so the text goes conveniently over to the next line and gives me a convenient example to share with you.

Good, that worked. Now I have enough text to explain.

There is no maximum or minimum length to any paragraph. You take as long to say what you need to say as suits your meaning. Just don’t take longer than that.

Not for its own sake.

Why not?

Because the writer and the reader come to the page for the same reason: