Firstly, Widows cause unsightly (and unnecessary) chunks of white space throughout the text and secondly, Orphans disrupt the flow of reading.
Now, why are these two issues considered bad typography? For two reasons. Check out the picture below for a visual perspective. With the disclaimer that both terms can be interchangeable, a Widow is a single word (or two very short words) sitting by itself on the last line of a paragraph and an Orphan is the last line of a paragraph that is situated at the start of a column or even worse, on a different page to the rest of the paragraph. Why not Photoshop? Well, you shouldn’t be setting too much type in Photoshop as that’s not what it’s designed for, but if you do, some of these techniques may work-no promises though!įirst off lets have a quick review.
Share I listed Widows and Orphans as an issue in a previous post, “ Five Rookie (and sometimes seasoned pro) Typography Mistakes I See Everywhere!”, I suggest you read that post first as this is a follow on article that expands on the previous by outlining a number of techniques that can be used within either Adobe InDesign or Illustrator to fix Widows and Orphans.
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