{"id":5853,"date":"2025-05-19T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T10:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/besuchen\/ausstellungen\/on-type\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:18:22","slug":"on-type-en","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/visit\/exhibitions\/on-type-en\/","title":{"rendered":"ON-TYPE"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-headline show-optional-headline' data-pattern='ho\/header-ausstellung-migration'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-10'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-10'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-4'>\n<h1 class=ho-sd-h2>ON-TYPE<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-10'>\n\n<div  class='ho-pattern-optional-headline'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-body' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Texts on Typography<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-md-offset-9'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-4 mobile-padding-top-4'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot ho-sd-metadata-large\"><div>8\/5\u2013<br>5\/8\/13<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='header-height-read-only'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_bRjm3b\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 3642,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE-212x300.jpg\",\"width\":212,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":18610},\"large\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE-723x1024.jpg\",\"width\":723,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":140191},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE-768x1087.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1087,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":154192},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE-1085x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1085,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":271488},\"small\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE-311x440.jpg\",\"width\":311,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":35450},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE-410x580.jpg\",\"width\":410,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":55307},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE-509x720.jpg\",\"width\":509,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":77719},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE-904x1280.jpg\",\"width\":904,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":203887},\"original\":{\"file\":\"8a-ON-TYPE.jpg\",\"width\":1181,\"height\":1672}},\n\"alt\" : \"Poster on typography featuring large yellow text and geometric patterns, dated June 6, 2015.\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/05\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:141.5749364945%; 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But the distinct message inherent in their appearance is often only noticed subliminally. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body-einzug'>\u201cON\u2013TYPE: Texts on Typography\u201d conveyed the fascination of type design and showed classics from twentieth-century typographic history along with recent examples. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-md-6 col-xs-12 col-md-offset-6\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-body-einzug'>The exhibition gathered together theses, manifestos and stocktaking accounts from twentieth-century typography in the German-speaking countries, presented letter patterns and insiders\u2019 typography magazines, and discussed the central protagonists and important debates in the history of typography regarding legibility, use of small letters in German, and the effects of digitization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern show-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/text-hinweisbox'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-6'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight color-bg-fg-revsersed'>\n\n<div  class='padding-top-1 padding-bottom-1 margin-left-4 margin-right-4'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-rem-max-width cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n\n<div  class='text-align-left margin-bottom-3 margin-top-3'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'><br>\u201cON\u2013TYPE: Texts on Typography\u201d was an exhibition arranged by the Department of Design at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hs-mainz.de\/en\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hs-mainz.de\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fachhochschule Mainz<\/a>, in cooperation with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mainz.de\/microsite\/gutenberg-museum-en\/index.php\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.mainz.de\/microsite\/gutenberg-museum-en\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gutenberg Museum Mainz<\/a> and the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3642,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"Texts on Typography"},"class_list":["post-5853","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"seo_titel":"","keywords":"","noindex":false,"redirect":"","short_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/5853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24729,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/5853\/revisions\/24729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}