Category: Design and New Media

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The Role of Advanced Typographic Taxonomy Systems Vis-à-Vis Modular, Variable and Parametric Typography

Typographic taxonomy systems categorise and describe the vast corpus of typefaces, created over centuries, and are used in teaching, commercial and professional settings. Mainstream taxonomy systems usually focus on separating neatly defined, text-bound typefaces into discrete classes, while grouping a huge diversity of display-bound typefaces and other outliers into loosely defined, generic classes. Modular and