![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The goal is to reduce the space your paragraph fills by just enough to accommodate the widow line. Luckily, there’s a few techniques to prevent widows and orphans from happening. Orphans are the opposite if there’s only room on a page for one more line, the first line of a paragraph can be “orphaned”, while the rest of the paragraph goes to the next page.īoth issues are visually unappealing to a reader. If left alone, they show up as a single line at the top of the next page. Before you call the police or child protective services, let’s clear up what we’re talking about in typography, widows and orphans refer to lines at the beginning or end of a paragraph that are separated from the body of the paragraph.Īs defined by The Chicago Manual of Style, widows are those pesky lines at the end of paragraphs that get cut off when you run out of space on a page. ![]()
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