单词 | river of white |
释义 | > as lemmasriver of white 6. Typography. A streak of white space running more or less vertically down a printed page, caused by the unanticipated alignment of spaces between words. Also more fully river of white. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > space left accidentally bite1678 river1897 1897 G. B. Shaw Let. 23 Oct. (1965) I. 816 Caxton would have printed your name Gr—ant Richa—rds at the end of a line sooner than spoil his page with rivers of white. 1927 G. B. Shaw Let. 7 Mar. in To a Young Actress (1960) 114 They avoided white patches and rivers in the rich black block of letterpress. 1929 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXXIII. 437 In careful book-printing the possibility of manipulating spaces is limited, because evenness is desirable, and rivers of white on the page must be avoided. 1967 Guardian 13 Oct. 5/3 Morison holding up a book, inspecting the printed page for rivers of white caused by bad printing. 2002 L. Graham Basics of Design: Layout & Typogr. v. 94 Try to avoid annoying and visually distracting ‘rivers’ of white space when using justified type. < as lemmas |
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