Typographers may modify the spacing of letters or words in a body of type to aid readability and copy fit, or for aesthetic effect.
Most classical Latin texts were written in scriptio continua, a continuous string of characters without spaces to mark word boundaries.
[1] Word spacing is crucial for the written form because it illustrates the sound of speech where audible gaps or pauses take place.
[3] Geoffrey Dowding describes the nature of spacing since the invention of printing from moveable type in the fifteenth century.
[8] In English, the ability to read a line easily, instead of needing to make sense of it first, is also attributed by good word spacing.
[9] With a written piece of text, the designer has to remember to make sure they do not add too much or too little space between words; otherwise it could ruin the texture and tone.