Drew Ink The year

Hierarchy

The order in which a page is read, made visible: what is seen first, second and third, decided rather than left to chance.

Hierarchy: the title page of Bodoni's Manuale tipografico, 1818, read in the order its sizes decide: the title first, the subtitle, then the author's name, the volume, the city, the printer.
The title page of Bodoni's Manuale tipografico, 1818, Giambattista Bodoni, punchcutter; printed by his widow, Parma.
Public domainPublic domain: Printed in Parma in 1818, five years after Bodoni's death, and out of copyright everywhere; Commons tags the file public domain, and this house reads a faithful scan of a flat public-domain page as carrying no new copyright.
Cropped to the left-hand page of the spread. Retrieved 2026-09-10.
Hierarchy: a drawn diagram with the hierarchy marked in vermilion.
Hierarchy, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.

Near it

Modular scaleWhite spaceAlignmentVisual contrastAbove the foldRule of thirds

What it is made of

sizethe crudest signal and the first one a reader uses
weight, colour, position, spacethe others, and they compound
HOUSE JUDGMENT, and measured on our own workthe site has TWO heading steps and no more: h1 at clamp(3rem, 7.6vw, 8rem) and h2 at clamp(2rem, 3.6vw, 3rem). At the ceiling that is 8rem against 3rem, a ratio of 2.67 to 1; at the floor 3rem against 2rem, 1.5 to 1. THE HIERARCHY IS WIDER ON A LARGE SCREEN THAN ON A SMALL ONE, by nearly a factor of two, because both ends are clamped independentlymeasured on this site's own stylesheet, which is the whole of its CSS
and that is the thing worth arguing abouta hierarchy that changes strength with the viewport is one a phone reader and a desktop reader do not sharenamed here rather than defended: it falls out of clamping two sizes separately and nobody chose it, which is exactly the kind of decision a count finds and a description never would