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Felix Yakubov
17,475 PointsRemoving text rivers and justify
Guil Hernandez was talking a lot about "rivers" in the typography section of css.
But I can't find an example of how to get rid of them.
All I know is that using text-align:justify; can create a lot of problems.
So my question is how to display the paragraph equally without using justify but without a lot of white space?
3 Answers
kevin jordan
11,353 PointsHey Felix - My thoughts after completing this part of the course are that you can avoid rivers in your text by using a combination of the following elements in your design : div widths, letter-spacing, font-size, and line-heights. Experimenting with these on your chosen fonts should yield appropriate text rendering, thus minimizing the appearance of rivers.
Hope this helps ! -kj
Felix Yakubov
17,475 PointsSame as I thought =\ the problem is when you have a website that generates posts every week you don't have time to play with every word.... I'm looking for some general approach, but I guess it wont happen... Thanks!
Parley Kennelly
3,038 PointsSomehow magazines and newspapers, get this down pat. I think they play with kerning and word spacing. Maybe there is room here for disruption. :)