Rivers of Type

Authors

Fritzi Striebel

Abstract

What we have called rivers of type might be defined as those white portions between the printed words on a page of type which sometime form significant patterns. Discovering this phenomenon for the first time, I wondered why it had taken me so long, half my life in fact. I made a hobby of collecting rare examples, trying to find the longest river, the tallest vertical, the longest angle. They have a fugitive quality which adds zest to the search.

Recommended Citation

Striebel, Fritzi (1986) "Rivers of Type," Word Ways: Vol. 19 : Iss. 2 , Article 3.
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