Giessbach (typography)

A pouring stream in the middle of the illustrated excerpt from a Latin dummy text

Gießbach (also Gasse or Bach ) is a typographical expression for several spaces between words, which in the figurative sense optically result in a "Bach" or a "Street". Its character of a superstructure makes reading difficult, since the reader can easily slip his eye out of the actual text into another line at these points . Torrents can one not reworked sentence arise. They can occur in block as well as in flutter substitution. They often can be with little effort through subtle variations in font size , width of the type area or hyphenation of a long word at the end of the previous rows resolve.

supporting documents

^ Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris: Design grid. Structure or pattern of lines that serve as a framework for arranging the elements of a design . Stiebner, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8307-1357-9 , pp. 93 .

[1] Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris: Design grid. Structure or pattern of lines that serve as a framework for arranging the elements of a design . Stiebner, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8307-1357-9 , pp. 93 .