Quote:
Originally Posted by Godzil
What the link between hyphens and grays?
|
In typography, the gray level or colour is, so to speak, the apparent colour of a page (or portion of a page) when viewed from far away (or with your eyes almost closed). It's related to how thick the letters are, how spaced out the words and lines are, etc. One of the aims of good typography is getting a uniform grey level across the page, which means that the letters and words should not appear condensed in some parts and spread out in other parts.
The lack of good hyphenation prevents finding good linebreaks, which results in some lines being too spread out and the grey level not being uniform, and that's poor typography.