This article is about the typographic concept; for the practice of writing with spaces between words, see Interword separation

Interword separation

In punctuation, a word divider is a glyph that separates written words. In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets, as well as other languages of Europe and the Mideast, the word divider is a blank space, or whitespace, a convention which is spreading, along with other aspects...

Word spacing in typography

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...

 refers to the size of the space between words. It should be distinguished from letter spacing (the spacing between the letters within each word) and sentence spacing (the spacing between sentences). Typographers may modify the spacing of letters or words in a body of type to aid readability and copy fit, or for aesthetic effect.

External links

• "The School of Close Spacing", excerpt from Book Typography, by Ari Rafaeli

External references

• Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type, Geoffrey Dowding