X-Files creator spent nine years formatting scripts into perfect rectangles with no widows
ChanceKelch · x · 2026-10-17
Gillian Anderson revealed that X-Files creator Chris Carter enforced a typographic obsession for nine years: no widows allowed on script pages. Every line of dialogue had to run all the way to the period, forming a perfect rectangle — dialogue visually designed for nearly a decade. The poster's takeaway: you have to be a little abnormal to do anything well.