Showing posts with label typography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label typography. Show all posts
6.18.2022
annoying innovation
The poet was doing something innovative with typography—it was annoying to read.
11.06.2018
10.10.2017
11.12.2014
type parameter
Bad typography can damage the text, but good/fancy typography cannot appreciably improve it.
2.17.2009
free as in free of
Free verse poetics is based on the immediacy and robust resources of prose itself. By eschewing both traditional/formalist artifices (regular meter and/or rime scheme) and the typographically disjointed arrays of projective verse, free verse avoids the verbal distraction of excessive mediation and visual display.
2.08.2009
8.17.2007
blimp titles
I detest seeing titles set in 14 point type (or larger), bolded or emboldened, proclaiming their aggrandized status apart from the body of the poem. Titles big as blimps flying over the tiny text scurrying below, blocking out the reader’s light.
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