11 Facts About Sentence spacing

Sentence spacing concerns how spaces are inserted between sentences in typeset text and is a matter of typographical convention.

Since the introduction of movable-type printing in Europe, various sentence spacing conventions have been used in languages with a Latin alphabet.

From around 1950, single sentence spacing became standard in books, magazines, and newspapers, and the majority of style guides that use a Latin-derived alphabet as a language base now prescribe or recommend the use of a single space after the concluding punctuation of a sentence.

Shortly after the invention of movable type, highly variable Sentence spacing was created, which could create spaces of any size and allowed for perfectly even justification.

The relative size of the sentence spacing would vary depending on the size of the word spaces and the justification needs.

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Typists in some English-speaking countries initially learned to insert three spaces between sentences to approximate the wider sentence spacing used in traditional printing, but later settled on two spaces, a practice that continued throughout the 20th century.

In 1941, IBM introduced the Executive, a typewriter capable of proportional Sentence spacing, which had been used in professional typesetting for hundreds of years.

European Union's Interinstitutional Style Guide indicates that single sentence spacing is to be used in all European Union publications—encompassing 23 languages.

Additionally, the Duden, the German-language dictionary most commonly used in Germany, indicates that double sentence spacing is an error.

One of the most popular arguments against wider sentence spacing is that it was created for monospaced fonts of the typewriter and is no longer needed with modern proportional fonts.

Direct studies on sentence spacing include those by Loh, Branch, Shewanown, and Ali ; and Clinton, Branch, Holschuh, and Shewanown ; with results favoring neither single, double, nor triple spacing.