In order to make typography legible spacing is crucial, using spacing to create gaps within the text trying to be communicated, Typographers should take into consideration not only the positive grain of letterforms but the negative gaps between them, this is important to help to the flow of text and keep the text readable, how much space a designer uses can determine how legible they want the text to be.
Allen Hori, "typography as discourse"
A good example of deconstuction being used succesfully can be seen within the artwork of Allen Hori, the image represents typography being used as speach to commmunicate words. The image doenst seem to follow any conventional typography rules the image has no clear grid making it give the impression that the words and letter have just been scattered randomly across the page, making it difficult to interpret where you are suppost to begin reading and where you end. At first glance the poster is illegable, you struggle to interpret the meaning behind it, however i feel this works well because it forces the audience to look further into it, breaking it down eventually the words can be interpretated. The large spaces within the image makes it very difficult to read, the spaces come across as random making it difficult to interpret where to look next. Some of the words are even broke up and written backwards making the audience consciously construct the words in your head, appose to the role of the traditional typography where reading should be effortless
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