A typical Dada design

“Columns of justified and ragged type often were skewed beyond conventional margins; multiple type weights and faces from different type families were used unharmoniously in a single composition; and hot-metal type material (heavy rules and stock illustrations) were strewn willy nilly throughout the pages. A typical Dada design looked, in printer’s terms, like the contents of a hellbox (a receptacle for smashed and broken type bodies).”

—Steven Heller and Louise Fili, Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age, 1999.