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Design Tip: Avoid Widows & Orphans

Improve the Readability of Your Typography

When formatting paragraphs, try to avoid letting a single word (orphan) or a very short phrase (widow) appear on a line all by itself. 

Widows and orphans leave too much white space at the bottom of a paragraph – which interrupts the flow of the eye and makes the paragraph more difficult to read.

In order to get words in paragraphs to line up in a way that is easier to read, you may need to play around with where other lines in the paragraph break by clicking shift + return. 

Graphic design tip: Improve your typography by controlling widows & orphans | Davey & Krista

1 thought on “Design Tip: Avoid Widows & Orphans”

  1. Dawn
    August 22, 2019 at 11:47 pm

    Yes! I thought I was crazy to think like this. it’s far from a vanity reason, it just looks odd and interrupts the reading flow. thanks for this insightful post!

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