A classic typography technique of hand-authoring line breaks for balanced text blocks, comes to CSS.

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Learn how the 'balance' value for 'text-wrap' in CSS Text Level 4 can massively improve text layouts. Discover the alternatives to 'text-wrap: balance' and the limitations of this technique.

CSS text-wrap: balance

A brief explanation of the technique the browser is using