Good hash functions depend heavily on the input to the hash, and the requirements of the algorithm. Such a hash will not be very good if all your strings start with the same five characters, for example. It will also tend to result in a normal distribution.
This produces uniformly good looking tables in HTML, PDF and docx in my tests. Now I'm off to upvote daroczig on some other questions to thank him for getting me to the solution.
Simple manual RMarkdown tables that look good in HTML, PDF and DOCX
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