On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:57, Gerrit Ansmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:17:09 +0100, Michael Everson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Randomly reversed long s? > > Hmm, this would not fit the sloped serif. Rather a flipped, dotless j. Well, yes, though dot less j isn't very German. The long s seemed slightly better-motivated. But in terms of the serif you are certainly right. > > Wildly guessing, I would say, that whoever made the cover wanted it to > reflect “Widerspruch” (contradiction) or the tertium non datur (the excluded > middle), which is strongly related to the “Satz vom Widerspruch” (law of > contradiction). To this purpose, he employed a ‘contradictory’ character: > something that the reader might guess to be a flipped capital long s or > plainly a something that is as far detached from any existing character as > possible while still being recognisable as a character. Or it is just > supposed to provoke thoughts – in which it succeeded, as this discussion > prooves. > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
