THE PAGE90 Typographic “furniture”
THE TERM FURNITURE IN TYPOGRAPHY refers to all of those bits and pieces that support and separate the text elements: rules, boxes, dotted and dashed lines, ornaments, and the like. These may represent signature elements for a recurring publication or project, or they may help form an important structure for the content. They can be decorative or functional, or both. Column rules and scotch rules in particular seem to go in and out of fashion—they are generally considered more traditional; however, they may also be used in an untraditional way.
ProjectFeature spread
Art DirectorArem Duplessis
DesignerKristina DiMatteo
ClientThe New York Times Magazine
Simple thick bars (mirroring the slab serif type) are the ...
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