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choosing and using type
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TEXTURE AND SPACE
Type Is Visual, Too Design students and
novices often make the mistake of ignor-
ing the abstract visual nature of type and,
as a result, use type in a heavy-handed way
that doesn’t correspond with image mate-
rial—in effect, separating the two things
completely. Type is visual; in space, it acts
the same way that dots, lines, planes, and
fields of texture do in any composition...
Because it is, in its essence, dots, lines,
planes, and fields of texture. Type doesn ...