The orphan also breaks up the horizontal alignment across the top of the page which is very important. AN ACT TO AMEND THE WIDOWS’ AND ORPHANS’ PENSION FUND ORDINANCE Be it enacted by the. The orphan is the worse of the villainous duo, whereas the widow sits at the bottom or end of a paragraph, the orphan sits at the top of a column or page. Proper religious work, according to God, involves caring for widows and orphans: Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world (James 1:27). This will cause a visual disruption to the colour of the page. In the New Testament, widows are also given special consideration. The widow, is a word or word fragment that sits at the end of a paragraph of type. At the end of the day, regardless of what you call them, the transgressions should be identified and rectified. (James 1:27) Tomorrow I will touch on the Catholic Epistles, including James. It should be noted that different sources will disagree with what a ‘widow’ and what an ‘orphan’ are, in fact, some sources reverse the meanings altogether. To Look After Orphans and Widows Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27, CSB: Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
American Standard Version Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. James 1:27, NLT: Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. This really might seem like one of those pedantic issues that only stuffy designers care about, but it’s an issue that can be easily avoided once you know to look for it. Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
The widow and the orphan are both careless remnants that can disrupt a page’s “ typographic colour”. In the world of ‘typography’ where the printed page is sometimes classified as a work of exquisite craft (or even art if you ask some typophiles), there are a duo of villains known as the widow and the orphan.