typography trivia of the day: what does the ℮ symbol on my beer/shampoo/toothpaste mean?

"There are two variables that need to be adjusted for justifying wholesale large swaths of text:

1. Font size
2. Hyphenation

Without control of these two factors you will certainly have rivers, ie, channels of whitespace running down the paragraphs since whitespace, or more accurately, word spacing, is what is used to justify the lines."

"This is Typography 101. You don’t need to be a full-time glyph geek to know what full justification without hyphenation does to spacing and readability."