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Lézarde

English translation: River

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French term or phrase:Lézarde
English translation:River

16:38 Sep 11, 2014
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French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Printing & Publishing
French term or phrase: Lézarde
Lézarde : dans un pavé de texte composé, il s'agit d'une forme blanche inesthétique, provoquée par une succession verticale de blancs entre les mots.

Can't find a term and hampered on Internet by thousand of hits about home printers

But here it is more of an 'optical illusion'

Does anyone know the term please in English?

Thanks
SafeTex
France
Local time: 10:21
River
Explanation:
www.designtalkboard.com

A river is a typographic term for the ugly white gaps that can occur in justified columns of type, when there is too much space between words on concurrent lines of text. Rivers are especially common in narrow columns of text, where the type size is relatively large.
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Irene Chalmers Preire
France
Local time: 10:21
Grading comment
thanks for this
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4 +4River
Irene Chalmers Preire


  

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River


Explanation:
www.designtalkboard.com

A river is a typographic term for the ugly white gaps that can occur in justified columns of type, when there is too much space between words on concurrent lines of text. Rivers are especially common in narrow columns of text, where the type size is relatively large.


    Reference: http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?la...
    Reference: http://www.designtalkboard.com/glossary/design/r-glossary.ph...
Irene Chalmers Preire
France
Local time: 10:21
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thanks for this

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Victoria Britten: You got there first!
13 mins
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agree  Tony M: Yup, that's the term!
33 mins
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agree  Gladis Audi, DipTrans
1 hr
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agree  Duncan Moncrieff: Hello neighbour :)
1 hr
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