Ben
Ben is a lifelong Nintendo fan who likes to build websites, and make video games. He buys way too much Lego.
UnJUSTIFY text on other peoples websites
Anyone else get wound up by justified text?
It’s not always a problem but there are times when I notice it, and it makes things harder to read. Something to change the text to left justified (as it should be IMO) would be so handy… and now Joe Lencioni has come up with a simple bookmarklet, named Unjustify, that does just that.
Check it out over at ShiftingPixel.
By the way… Joe takes some pretty good photos too.
Quite useful indeed. However, I’m still looking for a tool to make text that spans across the entire page readable (yes, I’m looking at you, Wikipedia). A tool to fix columns by pixels would be super.
And don’t give me the “just resize your browser” nonsense, I like maximized windows and not the window clutter you see sometimes (yes, I’m looking at you, Mac OS).
I like my justified text on a grid/grid inspired site. But I see your point, because I justify text on my blog and while I write I have to think about long strings and stuff. I live though 😉
Nic – You’re looking at a lot of people 🙂
Connor – When I first started web design I liked it too, from a visual point of view, but as I slowly learnt it’s not so good from a readability one. Your site isn’t too bad but there have been sites I’ve visited where I wonder what went through the designers head when they implemented the text that way. I sometimes find it all rather frustrating and this little bookmarklet removes that frustration 🙂
Ah, that takes me back to my webdesign days. I was once *forced*, by the client, to justify text under small images of a website that i’d designed. We’re talking a sentence of text under a small image, maybe 200 pixels wide. Then you can talk about illegible text!
@Niclas: you are probably looking for this.
Joe, that is a star quality link – thanks a bunch.