What are these coloured lines called, and what is their purpose?

Of late I’m seeing these coloured lines being used quite a bit on websites, usually under a main headline, and above the succeeding paragraph. While they look nice, and add to the aesthetics, do they have a name? Is there a purpose behind these lines?




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  • Cory MaylettCory Maylett Posts: 245
    edited April 2019
    They're typically created with styled horizontal rule <hr> tags, but I don't really think this particular use of horizontal rules has a name.

    As for their function, they can serve as organizational elements for the content, like identifying main headlines or separating one block of text from the next. When used consistently as part of a website's style, they can play a part in the website's overall cohesion and personality. They're an easy-to-code way of injecting a little color into what might otherwise be a long block of gray type — like you said, aesthetics.
  • Some might call them "Separators"
  • I guess this has a typographic angle?...
  • Well, it gets mixed in with the typography on a page as sort of a pseudo-typographic thing, I suppose.  :|
  • edited April 2019
    I recall someone calling them “anchors”. Apparently helps anchor the text to the alignment setting.
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