“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.