Paragraphs don't occur naturally in the text. In early printed books, paragraph breaks were marked with a symbol of two horizontal lines (||). Later, in the 17th century, book publishers started using indents — a blank space at the beginning of the paragraph's first line — and line breaks to add pauses to text.^[1]

Nowadays, designers swear by combining indents, line breaks, and/or paragraph spacing to turn the content canvas into short and appealing text chunks. However, don't overdo paragraph formatting by using too many signals, like indents and extra line spaces, creating unclear, unstable text blocks that are hard to follow.