As someone who designs both graphic art, essays, and music I second the importance of “whitespace”. In music it is called headroom, separation, or spatiality. Cram too much into a song or recording and it buries the desired effect. Music must breathe. Graphic design must also breathe. Essays must breathe in overall design & typesetting . They must also breathe within the logic & language employed to argue the points. There is a fine art to each of these.
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As someone who designs both graphic art, essays, and music I second the importance of “whitespace”. In music it is called headroom, separation, or spatiality. Cram too much into a song or recording and it buries the desired effect. Music must breathe. Graphic design must also breathe. Essays must breathe in overall design & typesetting . They must also breathe within the logic & language employed to argue the points. There is a fine art to each of these.
I love that analogy with musical composition. So interesting the way some principles recur across disciplines
Aligned with some kind of natural law maybe?
Yes, I feel like it all comes back to the nature of human consciousness and how our brains process information