White Space

White space

is the blank area in a document. Using white space helps prevent confusing or unattractive blocks of text, by breaking the text into smaller segments and making the page more appealing.

To avoid the dreaded screen full of text, use paragraph breaks, extra blank lines, horizontal rules and lists to add white space to your documents.

URLs:

Net Tips for Writers and Designers

You may not agree with every statement, but this is the first style guide I've seen that discusses both horizontal and vertical white space.

Yale C/AIM Style Guide

This style guide addresses good page design; it suggests a cohesive standard page design to be used throughout the site, with a footer which indicates the page origin on every page.

W3E References:

graphical dividers

style guide

white space

Print References:

• Que's Computer and Internet Dictionary by Brian Pfaffenberger with David Wall. Que, Indianapolis, IN. 1995. (ISBN: 0-7897-0356-4)