LS / 01Phototypesetting language

Set the page
in light.

Lichtsatz brings the discipline of the Swiss galley to a dark screen: headlines rest on a luminous baseline beam, values read as exposure stops, and the deep field stays pure black so the type does the shining.

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Screen ruling 133 lpi Aperture f/5.6 Grid 12 col Contrast +1 EV
02 / 04The system

Three things carry the page.

A — Beam

The baseline beam

Each section title rests on a single luminous hairline. A travelling exposure tick marks the focal point. The beam is the grid made visible by light.

B — Screen

Halftone luminance

Tone is built from a dot raster, never a wash. Density carries weight; the void stays pure black so every value reads as exposed light.

C — Stops

Values as exposure

Numbers are typeset like a densitometer reading — f-stops, lp inch, EV. Precision is the ornament; there is no other decoration.

03 / 04Type specimen

One headline, fully exposed.

Galley
14.
Space Grotesk · 170px display · −0.06em tracking · baseline locked to the 12-column register field. Set on a matte black plate, pushed one stop.

Bring the press bench to the screen.

Compose galleys, lock baselines, expose plates. Lichtsatz is a complete language — tokens, embodiment, landing and dashboard — built on one idea: type set in projected light.

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