From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

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12 Avoid bad paragraph breaks

12 Avoid bad paragraph breaks

From the course: The 33 Laws of Typography

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12 Avoid bad paragraph breaks

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- Law 12, Avoid Bad Paragraph Breaks. When you're creating a document that has a large amount of text, that text will most likely be broken into paragraphs, and these paragraphs are going to have to break across pages in your document. When paragraphs do break across pages, it's important to make sure that they're breaking well, that they're breaking at good places. In other words, avoid bad paragraph breaks. What exactly does that mean? Here's an example of a bad paragraph break. You can see that this line of text at the top of this page is actually the last line of text from the paragraph on the previous page. When a paragraph contains multiple lines of text, you don't want to leave one line of text at the beginning of a page. You don't want the paragraph to break that way. You also don't want to leave one line of text at the end of a page, and here's an example of that type of bad break. This line of text right here is actually the first line of a paragraph that continues on the…

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