Drab verbiage
That design style was perfect for adding typographic flourish to Dolby® patent language displayed on the walls of Dolby's legal services department. “The goal was to make the type contrast with the language. So visually, you have this neat thing to look at even if you decide not to read it. Eventually I was able to use certain fonts and words to give subjective cues for the interpretation of the patent without being too complex,” Janik says. She may have broken some self-subscribed rules of typography — for Janik, good typographic design is “a critical interpretation of a message’s meaning” — so she had to force herself not to spend too much time trying to understand the patent language and have fun with it instead. In the end, the once-drab verbiage was elevated to a beautiful work of art.
