Typography: Text Project

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Print situates words in space more relentlessly than writing ever did. Writing moves words from the sound world to a world of visual space, but print locks words into position in this space. Control of position is everything in print. Printed texts look machine-made, as they are. In handwriting, control of space tends to be ornamental, ornate, as in calligraphy. Typographic control typically impresses most by its tidiness and invisibility: the lines perfectly regular, all justified on the right side, e v e r y t h i n g c o m i n g o u t e v e n v i s u a l l y, and without the aid of guidlines or ruled borders that often occur in m a n u s c r i p t s . Th i s i s a n i n s i s t e n t w o r l d o f c o l d , n o n - h u m a n , f a c t s .

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