Doubtless there is a font that inspired Avia and one that inspired that and on and on. This is the true nature of creativity. Not the mythical creation born of nothing.
> We have all seen proofs where faulty platemaking or light inking has lost all hairlines in a delicate roman. Raphael Boguslav observed the effect and understood it as a sophisticated form of stencil design.
Agreed. I was thinking how, even if you somehow create something in isolation, all it can do is stand on its own. A thing created on top of decades and centuries of other creations stands taller, it has history and context.
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