![]() And as I expected, there are four ways the internet defines these two terms. So I Googled the terms to get a straight answer (SPOILER ALERT: there is none). However, when book designer Shannon Losorelli-Doronio started teaching in the TypeEd program she learned it a different way and remembered them as “an orphan has no past a widow has no future.”Įllery Curran addressed the mix-up on the Opus Design site saying "you can call them whatever you want, maybe widphans or ordows? They are a problem and need to be fixed!" I had originally thought that ‘widows’ were those lonely words on the last line of a paragraph and that ‘orphans’ were the lonely lines of a paragraph at the start or end of a column. So imagine my anxiety when I start saying the word the word ‘orphan.’ Why? Because the two terms ‘orphans’ and ‘widows’ are interchanged from the time to time. ![]() Sometimes I’m scared shitless of saying ‘counter’ when I mean ‘bowl,’ and vice versa.* Why? I might get jumped on by the type community for not using the correct terminology.
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