Typography Essentials

THE PARAGRAPH68 Orphans and widows

THESE REMNANTS ARE CARELESS and represent inattention to typographic niceties and detail. A good typographic “color” on the page is interrupted when a word or word fragment is alone on a line at the end of a paragraph or column (known as a widow) or, even worse, at the top of a column or page (known as an orphan). The reason an orphan is even worse than a widow is that it not only creates a gap in typographic color, but it also disrupts the horizontal alignment across the tops of the columns of text.

ProjectSingle page

Creative DirectorDean Markadakis

DesignerJana Meier

ClientFast Company

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