Yes—sorry, I recognize now I wasn’t clear at all, but that’s what I was intending to communicate above! I have experimented with it locally on both https://v5.chriskrycho.com and https://chriskrycho.music (as well as another in progress), and I had independently concluded that it just looked a bit… off. Enough so…
…that at this point I have opted not to use it unless you all revisit the approach, because it makes for significant differences in the widths of paragraphs, which can be quite notably when reading through long blocks of text. It’s particularly (though not only) distracting on mobile, where it can…
…mean some paragraphs end up a solid 2–3em narrower than those above or below them. It’s visually jarring and feels like a mistake. I’ve attached the same section of https://v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/the-leica-q2/ with and without `text-wrap: pretty`, which I think shows it pretty clearly. The same effect is…
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Just to be extra clear: I’m flagging this because I *love* the work you’re doing in this space and think directionally this is fantastic!