Right alignment is rarely used, if ever. But if it is used, its to align text up to another element for more visual flare. And lastly justified alignment is used more commonly with minimal or luxurious design styles to give it some visual taste and elegance. Left is the most popular and default text alignment. Its the best for readability and user experience because of the way our eyes read.
A great example of right alignment being used effectively is in the website navigation. With right alignment, you can include a CTA button In the top right and have the main links align with it nicely making the navigation very scannable.
There are some rare cases that it can actually make sense if used in low uses, like in this modern business letterhead example. As a rule of thumb, right alignment should not be used if you are aligning text with more than 5 words at a time.
This keeps the user experience in check while still adding in some rebellious formatting. In the example to the right, the right-aligned text on has a maximum of 3 words per line which limits the negative user experience to be insignificant at worst — making it a good use case. I should mention that right-aligned text is different than right-aligned elements. Right-aligned elements work well in most cases, and can actually help make use of otherwise unused space.
Center alignment can look great in small doses, but it can lead to problems when people overuse it. The reason why center text alignment is horrible for user experience is that with each new line the user reads, there is a brief moment where the user has to find where the next line begins — decreasing the users reading speed. Hell yes! However there are some limits and exceptions of center alignment. Why oh why are we doing this.
Centered text has become such a common occurrence, especially in website design. In my opinion centered paragraphs are only acceptable up to a point, 3 lines of text to be specific. Anymore, it becomes too displeasing to read each line after.
This is an acceptable length of text in a paragraph to center align. No more than three lines of text. When designing a website or any printed material, it is easy to concentrate on how the text looks and forget to pay enough attention to what the text should say.
The most effective materials give each element — content and design — equal effort and attention. This article addresses one aspect of design, type alignment: centered text vs flush left. To learn more about the importance of content, read our article Content Ideas to Drive Website Traffic. Left aligned text is easier to read than centered text, particularly when the text is several lines deep. This is because when you center the text, the starting place of each line changes.
Brought to you by the Left Justified Justice League. This is one of those articles I keep around to share with clients who request centered text. And I periodically have clients ask about full-justified text newspaper style, where the beginnings and ends of each line match up.
This is an abomination and should never happen online. Never ever do it. Some people disagree with me on this. This twitter thread from Jared Spool and this article by Deborah Edwards-Onoro are counterpoints to what I think, and I agree with them in part.
But, as Deborah Edwards-Onoro points out, centered text is good for wedding invitations and wine labels. The most readable text is black, only using sans-serif fonts, on a white background. The way in which centered text is hard to read is, like so many things, contextual.
Secondly, if there are more than three lines. Consider how this will look on mobile! On my own sites, I actually take centered text and write a media query to left-align it on mobile, where a couple of lines of appropriately centered text is likely to show up as lines of text.
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