The Elements of Typographic Style, long regarded as a pretty
definitive text on all things typographic, cautions against such a
thing. To quote: "As a general rule, no more than a single space is
required after a period, colon or any other mark of punctuation."
I've avoided joining in to this one, but from my understanding, the reason the double space was ever adopted as a practise was because early typewriters didn't leave enough space after a period. Computer typefaces are smarter than that, so the extra space is no longer required for readable text.
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Kay Smoljak
kay.zombiecoder.com
cleverstarfish.com
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