Tag Archives: typography

Formal 1

What is the minimum of typographic form necessary to legibly reproduce a text and/or to write? Italic, the underline, a space between paragraphs.
There is a possible book in which italics, say, do several kinds of work: to indicate citation, proper name, but also (at the same time) as an emphasis.
What would it mean to collapse [...]

Argument for Typography 1

Turing reformulates the question, Can machines think?, in the terms of a game in which an interrogator questions two (invisible) entities in order to determine the gender of each [Turing, 1950]. The question becomes whether the interrogator will decide wrongly as often when one of the entities being questioned is a machine.
It is critical in [...]