Razryadka (spacing)

Karla Huebner karlahuebner at COMPUSERVE.COM
Fri Aug 1 14:52:13 UTC 2008


I associate it with modernist typography of the 1920s and 1930s 
(Czech, specifically, but I'm sure it was used widely).

Karla Huebner
University of Pittsburgh

At 08:09 AM 8/1/2008, you wrote:
>
> > generally not used in the West
>
>Not true; this has been and to some degree remains common in German 
>under the name Sperrsatz; see:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_(typography)#Letterspacing
>http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperrsatz
>
>Nathan Vaillette
>Dickinson College
>http://users.dickinson.edu/~vailletn/

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