Typographyisatoolofcommunication.
Itmustbecommunicationinitsmostintenseform.
Thee
The New Typography [1923]
- Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
mphasismustbeonabsoluteclaritysincethisdistinguishesthecharacterofourownwritingfromthatofancientpictographicforms.
Ourintellectualrelationshiptotheworldisindividual-exact(e.g.,thisindividual-exactrelationshipisinastateoftransitiontowardacollective-exactorientation).
Thisisincontrasttotheancientindividual-amorphousandlatercollective-amorphousmodeofcommunication.
Thereforepriority:unequivocalclarityinalltypographicalcompositions.
Legibility-communicationmustneverbeimpairedbyanaprioriaesthetics.
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