Typography as Architecture: When Type Becomes Space

I came to typography through UI design, but I stayed for reasons closer to poetry than engineering. There is something profound about the fact that meaning lives simultaneously in what a word says and in how it looks saying it.

In web development, I think about typography as the invisible architecture of reading. Tracking controls breathing. Leading governs the rhythm at which meaning arrives.

When I design interfaces, I start with type before color. Color is decoration. Typography is structure.

Code can be like this too. Indentation, naming, spacing — these are the typography of source code. A well-formatted file is beautiful before it is functional.