https://medium.com/@clagnut/all-you-need-to-know-about-hyphenation-in-css-2baee2d89179

A Gutenberg bible with hyphenation c1440Earlier this month I was invited to give an evening lecture at the Typography Society of Austria (tga) in Vienna. I was honoured to do so, as it meant following in the footsteps of such luminaries as Matthew Carter, Wim Crouwel, Margaret Calvert, Erik Spiekermann, and the late Freda Sack to name but a few.

I presented some golden rules for typography on the web to a full house. In the Q&A afterwards I was asked about the current state of automatic hyphenation on the web. This was a good question considering that German is well known for its long words — noun compounds feature commonly (for example Verbesserungsvorschlag meaning suggestion for improvement) — so hyphenation is extensively used in most written media.