Short article, republishing a text I wrote for ISType in 2015, considering how we understand emergent properties, in type as in birds.
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On the common swift
A short text prepared for the 2015 ISType typography conference, considering how we understand emergent properties, in type as in birds.
![Specimen image for the Cambria typeface family, illustrated by Newtonian equaations set in the Cambria Math font, and the conclusion of a quote from Newton: ‘...not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.’ [I don’t endorse that view: there is plenty of truth in the multiplicity and confusion of things.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onoacmxpmqdhzlp57btknxpf/bafkreiarakwjzweqmqobsqsped7hums5ti2mxj3milj43xvo7j6ffohr5y)
