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Re: Q: "Moderately modern, but not futurist, book jacket design by Morrison"?
What's missing, I think, is the care over placement and balance, the attention to graphical detail that characterises even Dadaist typography. The Gollancz covers include all the tropes of modernism …3 -
Re: Q: "Moderately modern, but not futurist, book jacket design by Morrison"?
I wouldn't describe the design of The Intelligentsia of Great Britain as 'moderately modern'. It's a dog's breakfast of poorly conceived and executed ideas. Many of the other Gollancz jackets are mor…3 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
Somewhat as an aside: There have been a lot of assertions in this thread about how we — collectively or as individuals — read. I think it is important to restate what should be obvious, given that co…4 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
I've quite regularly heard the term neo-Kufic used to refer to typographic letters with large counters, rationalised vertical alignments, and usually fairly low contrast stroke modulation. They're no…2 -
Re: Optical correction in Arabic monoline
That is not how cognitive scientists now believe that we read.2
