Digital fonts are governed by protocols rather than labour laws. Haptic Typography Virtual typography is more haptic and aggregate than optic or systematic in nature. That is, textual elements such as words, images, objects exist in a field as discrete entities rather than as unified arrangements in a spatial continuum. Animated avatars, photographic backgrounds, 3D rooms, floating objects or suspended words are all superimposed, or directed much like cast members on a virtual 3D theatre stage. The movement of those cast members is directed by the user at home in real time.
Digital type has no body no body no body Virtual texts have no substance in any physical terms.
In a strict semiotic sense, digital characters don't represent anything at all but themselves. Streaming texts, cascading fonts or style sheets, non-linear modes of reading, gestural rephrasings and media convergences all have upset the conventional ideas of graphic and textual representation. Always becoming, cyberpoems are emergent, heterological and heterogeneous in their constant spooling, transferences, hyperlinking and recomposition. Cyberpoems are not forged, mechanical or even electronic, they are genetic. Meaning has become temporamental, stochastic and interpolated rather than causal or consequential.