The New Typography [1923]

- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Typography is a tool of communication.
It must be in its most intense form.
The emphasis must be on
absolute clarity since this distinguishes
the character of our own writing from that of
ancient pictographic forms.
Our intellectual relationship
to the world is individual-exact (e.g.,this
individual-exact relationship is in a state of
transition toward a collective-exact orientation).
This is in contrast to the
ancient individual-amorphous and
later collective- amorphous mode of
communication.
Therefore priority:
unequivocal clarity in all
typographical compositions.
Legibility-
communication
must never be
impaired by an a
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