Graphics Reference
In-Depth Information
CARE FOR THE WIDOWS
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Never allow a single word (a widow) to end a paragraph. If widows con-
stantly appear in the rough setting of a body of text, the column width should be adjusted. Ideally,
the last line of a paragraph should be more than half the paragraph's width, but three words (no
matter their length) are acceptable.
The visual quality of type is recognizable when it's further abstracted into its base components:
dots, lines, planes, and masses. The freedom that simplicity implies—the liberty to move type
around as freely as one might move the lines of a drawing around—becomes even more dramatic
in the example in which type is related to image: see how each pictorial element and each type
element plays off the other, responding to their individual compositional qualities. The type isn't
on top of the layout or next to the picture. The picture and the type take on the same value.
