Irritation

I have been trying to master the first verse of 'Twinkle, twinkle little star' from a book supplied by BH. A book which has the bright idea of jiggling with the horizontal alignment of the lines of print, possibly by associating each letter with a small random movement either up or down.

Which is fair enough for the nursery rhymes themselves, printed in a large font on widely separated lines. It serves to nicely soften the block of words against the illustration, without much affecting legibility.

But on the page at the front where it tells you about the edition, the publisher and all that sort of stuff, in much smaller type, it is both pointless and irritating. An insult to all those centuries printers put into making their product as legible as possible.