River (typography)

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A typographic river running down the middle of a passage of text

In typography, rivers, or rivers of white, are visually unattractive gaps appearing to run down a paragraph of text. They can occur with any spacing, though they are most noticeable with wide interword spaces caused by either full text justification or monospaced fonts.

A less-frequently-used term is a lake, which refers to a cluster of adjacent or intertwined rivers that create a ligher area in the midst of a block of type.

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