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Asymmetric typography

Arranging a page off its centre line on purpose, using alignment and white space to organise it instead of a mirror axis.

Asymmetric typography: the title page of Lissitzky's For the Voice, 1923, type set off the centre line against a constructed figure, organised by alignment and space.
For the Voice, title page, 1923, El Lissitzky.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Berlin in 1923; Lissitzky died in 1941, more than seventy years ago, and the book is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright; this crop is the title page.
Cropped to the title page. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Asymmetric typography: the Left March spread of For the Voice, the title standing vertical and diagonal, the poem set flush left below.
For the Voice, Left March, 1923, El Lissitzky.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Berlin in 1923; Lissitzky died in 1941, more than seventy years ago, and the book is out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful photograph of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright; this crop is the Left March page.
Cropped to the right-hand page. Retrieved 2026-09-10.

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Where it came from

Argued for by Jan Tschichold in Die neue Typographie, 1928, a position he later moderated in his own practice.

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