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I know nothing about typography, so could you share which aspects of the type specifically stood out to you as bad typography?

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The fact that it uses Times New Roman gives it a very (old) "MS Word" vibe.

In addition, the text is 'justified', but there's not a single hyphenation.

That's what Word does. And it looks a bit ugly. It's probably worse than just going with left-alignment.

Word actually supports automatic hyphenation, but you have to turn it on (it’s a property of paragraph styles IIRC).

Thanks! I heard of that.

Of course, in practice approximately no one ever does that.

It is being done in business environments where people actually care how documents look like. It may be a small portion of Word usage overall, but it isn't totally rare either.

Oh, definitely. Microsoft likely put that feature in because there was some demand for it from some important enough customers.

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