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When text becomes ART

2017-10-08 · 2,462 views · license: CC BY-NC 2.0

When text becomes ART — pen and ink drawing by Daniel Ari Friedman. When does text become art? I think that there are two roads by which text can become art, sketched out below: The first
When text becomes ART — pen and ink drawing

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When does text become art?

I think that there are two roads by which text can become art, sketched out below:

The first road by which text can become art is by containing beautiful content. For example, words from the dictionary could be used in a very specific order, with the outcome being a poem, a love letter, or "Ulysses". Here the focus is less on typography and more on the "content" of the text.

The second road by which text can become art is by emphasizing stylistic parameters, an art & science I call "Fontplay". As any aspiring "fontplayer" will soon realize, aesthetic perturbations only make sense within an exceedingly limited portion of "content space", and vice-versa. Despite this…

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