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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The purpose of typography is to disappear so you absorb the contents without noticing the letters.
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simply and plainly ridiculous, not you dear friend, but your statement. The fine art (repeat art) of typography is liquidated like this. Pfui! there you go, Manunzio, Bodoni, all the work on design of characters, the composition, the choice of paper, the balance of the page. The fine art of bounding.
All this liquidated with few words. under the superiority of what, of whom ...
Horror. Horror vacui.
this is a page of a book printed in 1958, by bona in 900 copies. This is number 886. It is the history of D'Olao Magnus archibishop of Upsalla of th costums od the Northern People. it appeared in Rome in 1554 (printed in Basel in 1567.
Reading it gives a lot of pleasures. More than just the words.