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  1. Feb 2022
    1. that the most important thing about printing is that it conveys thought, ideas, images, from one mind to other minds.

      When printing happens we turn our ideas and thoughts into a hard copy piece of paper that would then go into someone else's hands and on. this was one of the fastest way to send a massage out to the public back in the days and still is.

    2. That is, the first thing he asked of this particular object was not “How should it look?” but “What must it do?” and to that extent all good typography is modernist.

      When it comes to typography designers need to think about what the message would be and how they are going to communicate it to the public. this should be the main goal doing this effectible not putting much though into if is going to look nice.

    3. connoisseur

      an expert judge in matters of taste.

    4. maudlin experiments

      self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness.

    5. impudent

      Not showing due respect for another person or being impertinent

    6. When a goblet has a base that looks too small for security, it does not matter how cleverly it is weighted; you feel nervous lest it should tip over. There are ways of setting lines of type that may work well enough, and yet keep the reader subconsciously worried by the fear of “doubling” lines, reading three words as one, and so forth.

      The writer seems to to talking about the reader of a design becoming overwelmed by the text in a design when they look at it if there is to much causing the message of the design to be lost or not focused on in the design.