Typography - Getting The Hang Of Typography

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Unfortunately, there is no easy way to prevent typographic widows and
orphans with CSS. One way to remove them has been mentioned above,
but there is also a jQuery plug-in called jQWidon՚t that places a non-
breaking space between the last two words of an element.


6. Emphasis


Giving emphasis to a word without interrupting the reader is important.
Using italics is widely considered to be the ideal form of emphasis. Some
other common forms of emphasis are: bold, caps, small caps, type size,
color, underline or a different typeface. No matter which you choose, try to
limit yourself to using only one. Combinations such as caps-bold-italic are

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