re From Typology to Type

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Fri May 17 14:59:10 CDT 2002


>From: Mark Wright AIA <mwaia at yahoo.com>
>I find that the "Caps" work as speed bumps, slowing the eye to better
>approximate the pace of speech. This helps me attend to the richness
>and musicality of the language. M&D sounds wonderful, doesn't it?

I think you're right about "speed bump," which is another way of saying 
emphasis, but only of the slight variety.  It also imitates the writing 
style of the period which liberally littered text with caps for no apparent 
reason.

David Morris


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