: Center aligning paragraph text is most often not a good choice. Human comprehension has been dutifully trained to view text in certain ways and when you center-align paragraph text you ask

@Nimeshi706

Center aligning paragraph text is most often not a good choice. Human comprehension has been dutifully trained to view text in certain ways and when you center-align paragraph text you ask the reader to work very hard and maintaining the visual path through the text.

This isn't felt to any great degree when looking at short, one or two sentence, paragraphs. But the more text there is the worse it gets.

Here is an article about text alignment

And UX.SE has a related question: Is left-aligned text generally preferable over centered text?

If left alignment is just not an option (not sure why that would be the case), you may need to rethink the design.

(Side note: Reverse type on the web is also very difficult on the reader.)

If you are dead set on using that template. I'd suggest left aligning the paragraph text in all the areas and using an imaginary position from the left side to align them all to. For example, I'd define a content area and left align within that area:



Things will "read" much easier....

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