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> I think you're talking in terms of personal preference here.
Then EEstep -at- mrisystem -dot- com wrote
>I remember reading an article a few years ago (I couldn't tell you where),
>in which some psychologist studied what people look for as "beauty" in other
>people. Asymmetry wasn't it.
Okay, time for some background: modern typography **is** based on
asymmetrical design. This principle was developed about 80 years ago.
The most famous expression of them is Jan Tschichold's book "The New
Typography," published in 1928, although Tschichold and other European
designers were practicing them for a number of years before that. North
America never accepted Tschichold's preference for sans serif fonts
(and,for that matter, Tschichold himself changed his mind on that point
later), but, otherwise, virtually everything done in typography since
then is based on the principles he expressed or else are a reaction to
them. Whether the preference is personal, and, no matter what people
find beautiful in each other, asymmetry is the norm in modern
typography.
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