The Rule

Pohyb

The letter and the body are drawn with the same bar: the dancer does not illustrate the Y, she is one.

Y

TYPE A LETTER

AbecedaA

TEIGE

TYPOPHOTO1926

Brand Guidelines

Never use decorative serifs. Use a geometric sans-serif (Jost). The stroke weight of the typography must match or complement the abstracted body strokes. Typophoto requires absolute synthesis: the image *is* the typography.

MITCHELL

Typophoto · Design

What breaks it

Placing a realistic, unmodified photograph next to a standard typographic character ruins the constructivist synthesis. The core rule of Devetsil's Typophoto (championed by Teige and Moholy-Nagy) was not to just *combine* text and image, but to fuse them into a single, functional, optical-graphic communication where they are indistinguishable.

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