Boustrophedon
As the ox turns: archaic lines ran right, then left, and the letters turned with them.
Archaic inscriptions ran left to right, then turned and ran back — with the letterforms mirrored on the return, because the plough does not lift at the end of a furrow.
Integration
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A house cut into a disused Bath stone quarry, entered from above.
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A statement or manifesto page — one deliberate moment of strangeness.
Budget
- Once per site. It is a signature, and a signature repeated is a pattern.
- Needs at least three lines to read as anything.
- Never on text the reader must actually absorb quickly.
Restraint is the aesthetic, and it does not survive being applied generously. These limits are the specification, not advice.