text-wrap: pretty
Paragraphs with no orphan last line
A paragraph set with pretty will not leave a single short word stranded on its own line at the end, which is the thing that makes a column look unfinished.
CaveatThis is the one for body copy, and balance is not. Swapping them is the common mistake: pretty only fixes the last lines, balance evens out every line but gives up on long text.
FallbackIt costs more layout work than normal wrapping, which is why it is opt-in. Scope it to prose rather than dropping it on a universal selector.
p, li {
/* no single word left alone */
text-wrap: pretty;
}Published