Nice-looking tables with thick rules

Question

I want to make a table with rules that are thicker than the default. It's pretty straightforward to do, however the result looks bad: the lines have gaps in them (see image below). There must be a way to make this look better.

\documentclass{article}
\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{2pt}
\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
    \hline
    hello & world \cr
    \hline
    hello & world \cr
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

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You might want to have a look at booktabs. It's a package designed to make nice tables. — Alexander, Feb 16 '13 at 14:38
See: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/41758/how-can-i-reproduce-this-table-with-thick-lines/41759#41759 — Marco Daniel, Feb 16 '13 at 14:47

yo' · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-11T20:37:37.317

Add \usepackage{array}. However, in general, vertical lines in tables are frowned upon and you should use them only if there's a good reason for it. As well, in LaTeX tabular-like environments, the macro \\ is prefered over \cr.

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\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{2pt}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
  \begin{tabular}{|c|c|}
    \hline
    hello & world \\
    \hline
    hello & world \\
    \hline
  \end{tabular}
\end{document}

Nice-looking tables with thick rules

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