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It was no breakthrough, like Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon; nevertheless, Jan Tschichold’s Die Neue Typographie, published in Germany in 1928, fostered a different way of looking at typography. His views were based largely on modernist ideals: on cubism, in which a word or letter became surprisingly revealing merely by becoming part of a collage; on the unorthodox writings of Mallarmé; on futurism and the typographic leanings of Marinetti; on the seemingly wild ideas of dada, the …