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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