27/04/2026
Can a typeface be kind? Steven Heller thinks the question is more complex than it sounds.
From Adolf Loos’s 1908 manifesto against ornament to William Morris’s belief that decoration was an antidote to industrialisation, to the floral digital revival of the early 2000s, the history of type is really a history of competing values: austerity vs. pleasure, function vs. delight. And kindness, it turns out, is always in the eye of the beholder.
On Lazy Blog, we explore Steven’s foreword to “Visual Voices for Change”, the new volume published by . Link in bio.
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