Typographic Space
タイポグラフィック・スペース / 1897– / modernist legacy / Layout / Experimental Typography
Designs reading time and vocal dynamics as space — the spread's blank, jumps of size and line, multiple faces.
Sentences crossing the spread / Great blanks / Multiple faces / Nonlinear reading order
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing historical works and their conditions · Deciding which principles survive translation to today's media
- Type
- Observe the type and composition of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one principle that steers the eye
- Material
- Verify the technique's own materials, process and support
- Caution
- Scattered letters are not an experiment. Design how blank, size and position act on reading speed.
- Further study
- Stéphane Mallarmé / Marcel Broodthaers / Un Coup de dés