1 Also known as the Gutenberg rule and the Z pattern of processing.

2 The seminal work on the Gutenberg diagram is attributed to the typographer Edmund Arnold, who is said to have developed the concept in the 1950s. See, for example, Type & Layout: How Typography and Design Can Get Your Message Across or Get in the Way, by Colin Wheildon, Strathmoor Press, 1995.

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