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RANDOMNESS & TYPOGRAPHY: MEANS OF CREATING UNIQUE INSTANCES IN TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN
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History of letters in typography is the history of establishing form for each letter. First books printed by Johannes Gutenberg had different forms for each letter imitating the manuscripts, but each letter tried to find out one form for itself, so movable type had one form for each letter in decades. Nowadays digital typefaces also use one form for each letter. This paper discusses opportunities that randomness can give to typography for creating more vivid forms, imitating imperfectness of first books and giving a sense of hand-made typography. It also suggests a classification of means that can be used to give uniqueness to the forms of the same letter in typographic designs. These means can be used in different fields of design that involve typography.
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