Adobe InDesign tutorial: (TYPE SETTING)

Type setting involving Widows/Orphans tutorial notes

In this tutorial we will learn about widows and orphans and how they make type setting looking inconsistent and unprofessional looking. 

Widow:  is a line of text at the end of a paragraph separated from the rest of the text, meaning that this line is either in the next column or in the next page. It can also appear as an opening line of a paragraph at the bottom of the column or a page, thus separated from the rest of the paragraph.

“Orphan” is a word or few words in its own row that end a paragraph, thus creating too much white space between paragraphs. These white spaces in a paragraph can be identified as being called "Rivers" this makes the type setting look inconsistent and not nice to look at. 

 

Here is a picture of some examples I have found on widows and orphans. It makes the type look messy and and hard to read, there are a number of different ways to solve this problem in InDesign. 

1) Justifying the type using the "Justify type" buttons. 

2) Using tracking and kerning to makes the space between words and letters more or less. 

3) Making the type itself larger or smaller by using the sizing settings.

4) Using the hyphenate button. 

All of these are different ways of making the type beautiful and clear, it also makes everything easier to read and makes the whole aesthetic of the type a lot more aesthetically pleasing. This was a helpful tutorial in learning how to justify and make my type beautiful. I will use this tutorial to work with my magazine to make the type setting the best I can I will watch out for things like orphans and widows and correct them so they look professional.