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Originally Posted by beppe
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.
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Ah. No.
Or, it depends.
Lets compare it to, say, personal style and looks. Very elegant people are often dressed and groomed in a way so you notice
them, not what they wear or their hairstyle, just that you are meeting an attractive person.
If we step back to typography, then I would say that the best of it, the most elegant, is that which disappears and helps and support the reading process. I.e. become invisible - while still making a great difference.
Beppe, I think you would appreciate this; the very best make-up that makes women beautiful is invisible to the viewer. He sees only her. Or the reader sees the story.