JackDunaway Posted February 23, 2013 Report Share Posted February 23, 2013 An especially interesting thread on "River Detection" in typography came onto my radar as a thread from the Signal Processing Stack Exchange (i had not heard of this forum until finding the River Detection thread) Anyway, the real gem here is finding an entire forum dedicated to signal processing strategy; but this one problem was interesting. What is a 'river' in typography? "rivers are bands of white space that result from accidental alignment of interword spaces in the text. Since this can be quite distracting to a reader bad rivers are considered to be a symptom of poor typography. An example of text with rivers is this one, where there are two rivers flowing diagonally" link to the thread image from "River" detection in text Quote Link to comment
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