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It’s a surprisingly common question among writers, editors, and designers: should you use one space or two after a period?

If you learned to type on a typewriter, you might be used to adding two spaces after a sentence. This convention helped create clearer sentence breaks because typewriters used monospaced fonts - where every character takes up the same amount of space.

But with modern computers and proportional fonts, the need for double spaces has largely disappeared.

Why Single Space