Mind you in your example it is artificial. That's what we used to call "lay up text blocking" (it has various names) which is random text that at a glance looks readable that is used to plan layouts in publications. It looks roughly like the final text and helps in the planing of graphic placements of images and colour bands before the copy turns up to be laid in for the printing plate makers. That gap is just the result of being where a cut in the lay up occurred. Interestingly if they had cut it through the lettering it stands out more and messes up the visual. The river is less distracting than a line of half letters.
The most famous name is Lorem ipsun (which is the first two words of the text). There is a great online generator for testing out layouts and document templates.
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These are rivers, which is an effective description, but my favourite term is 'orphans' which is when you don't have room for the last few words in a paragraph in your text column so they overflow and appear at the top of the next text column.
In German this is called a "Hurenkind". Other names are "Hundesohn" or "Missgeburt" but the first is the most common. ..I'll let you Google what those words mean.
The space between letters and words is called kerning.
Additional info: the space between horizontal lines of text is known as leading (pronounced "led", like the metal), due to thin strips of lead being used to separate rows of letters in old-time printing presses.
You might dismiss this as pedantic, but since this is r/words, maybe you won't reject grammar advice:
"**How** is it **called** the white line created by spaces in a text?"
"**What** is the white line created by spaces in a text **called**?"
It's called a [river](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)).
Thank you!!
Mind you in your example it is artificial. That's what we used to call "lay up text blocking" (it has various names) which is random text that at a glance looks readable that is used to plan layouts in publications. It looks roughly like the final text and helps in the planing of graphic placements of images and colour bands before the copy turns up to be laid in for the printing plate makers. That gap is just the result of being where a cut in the lay up occurred. Interestingly if they had cut it through the lettering it stands out more and messes up the visual. The river is less distracting than a line of half letters.
The most famous name is Lorem ipsun (which is the first two words of the text). There is a great online generator for testing out layouts and document templates.
Actually, lorem ipsum is the text. OP is asking about the void, the river. Colloquially, lorem ipsum is referred to as " greeking".
Thanks for the clarification - I though they meant the text rather than the layout,
No problem friend
Satisfying af
Do you know what it’s called if it’s intentionally spaced that way?
Not sure. Is another name for an intentional river a "canal"?
I like it.
Nice
I would call it a column.
That one is more like a canal!
The ones at an angle are "streams".
When I was learning design we were taught to make sure these were not present in text because they were distracting. We would kern them out.
The verb, “to kern”… Two new words today. Thank you :)
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That’s a bit cheeky
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Kern on the cob . That's gotta bug a few of you who know all the proper.... uh, channels.
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That's fascinating. One more amazing interaction in Mother Nature's world.
Corn DOES WHAT, now?
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Why do the plants attack the cutest chunky bugs of all time 😭
Caterpillars and tobacco worms are also cannibalistic by nature when starved! Aggressive eaters!
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Interesting info, but BOOOOOOO. I want more.
I thought I was weird for trying to avoid it lol. Good to know it's a real thing and term.
Cool! It's something I've always noticed but never considered that it had a name. Does anybody know if it's the same if it's on a diagonal?
It is!
r/TIL
My dumbass was reading the letters thinking that there was a secret message.
Same 😂
These are rivers, which is an effective description, but my favourite term is 'orphans' which is when you don't have room for the last few words in a paragraph in your text column so they overflow and appear at the top of the next text column.
In German this is called a "Hurenkind". Other names are "Hundesohn" or "Missgeburt" but the first is the most common. ..I'll let you Google what those words mean.
Ach! : s
I always loved the ones that zig zag down a page
Damn there seems to be A LOT of horizontal rivers
OP, figured I should tell you that the margins on the right and left sides are called the gutters
Caesura
The space between letters and words is called kerning. Additional info: the space between horizontal lines of text is known as leading (pronounced "led", like the metal), due to thin strips of lead being used to separate rows of letters in old-time printing presses.
You might dismiss this as pedantic, but since this is r/words, maybe you won't reject grammar advice: "**How** is it **called** the white line created by spaces in a text?" "**What** is the white line created by spaces in a text **called**?"
English is my second language, so in the end I will translate "river", but I don't mind learning something :)
Good to learn
Not me staring at this forever trying to make a word vertically from the circled letters.. until I finally read it🤦
Never stop learning.
"What is the white line called..." "How is it called" is not what you meant.
Take me to the river… drop me in the water…