Erik Spiekermann
United Designers
San Francisco, California/Berlin, Germany
www.uniteddesigners.com
Besides black marks on paper, we read spaces inside and between letters, between lines and around margins. Easy reading in an undisturbed rhythm means white spaces aren’t noticed.
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| | Taken away, reduced or opened up drastically, we notice that it isn’t working. When letters get separated, words aren’t words and numbers become single unrelated digits. The “1” has its own space, i.e. no white space on either side. The “2” then gets twice its normal space, the “3” three times, and so on. White space thus becomes undesirable.
(Spiekermann’s numerals also under option+1 through option+10) |
