TIL about the 'River' effect in typography - Lemmy.ca

> In typography, rivers (or rivers of white) are gaps in typesetting which appear to run through a paragraph of text due to a coincidental alignment of spaces. Rivers can occur regardless of the spacing settings, but are most noticeable with wide inter-word spaces caused by full text justification or monospaced fonts. Rivers are less noticeable with proportional fonts, due to narrow spacing. Another cause of rivers is the close repetition of a long word or similar words at regular intervals, such as “maximization” with “minimization” or “optimization”. [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/3d92f4fa-3def-4021-a5ae-fdc258de3357.png] [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/09a06bab-a91a-4c74-aa0b-4c069f46bae3.png]