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. . . all women of whatever age, rank, profession, or degree, whether virgins,
maids, or widows, that shall . . . impose upon, seduce, and betray into matri-
mony, any of His Majesty’s subjects, by the scents, paints, cosmetic washes,
artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, hoops, high heeled shoes
[or] bolstered hips shall incur the penalty of the law in force against witchcraft
. . . and . . . the marriage, upon conviction, shall stand null and void.
The function of typography, as I understand it, is neither to further the power of witches
nor to bolster the defenses of those, like this unfortunate parliamentarian, who live in
terror of being tempted and deceived. The satisfactions of the craft come from elucidating,
and perhaps even ennobling, the text, not from deluding the unwary reader by applying
scents, paints and iron stays to empty prose. But humble texts, such as classified ads or
the telephone directory, may profit as much as anything else from a good typographical
bath and a change of clothes. And many a book, like many a warrior or dancer or priest
of either sex, may look well with some paint on its face, or indeed with a bone in its nose.
A.1.2 Letters have a life and dignity of their own.
Letterforms that honor and elucidate what humans see and say deserve to be honored
in their turn. Well-chosen words deserve well-chosen letters; these in their turn deserve
to be set with affection, intelligence, knowledge and skill. Typography is a link, and it
ought, as a matter of honor, courtesy and pure delight, to be as strong as the others in the
chain.
Writing begins with the making of footprints, the leaving of sighs. Like speaking,
it is a perfectly natural act which humans have carried to complex extremes. The ty-
pographer’s task has always been to add a somewhat unnatural edge, a protective shell of
artificial order, to the power of the writing hand. The tools have altered over the centuries,
and the exact degree of unnaturalness desired has varied from place to place and time to
time, but the character of the essential transformation between manuscript and type has
scarcely changed.
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