flush left

A former Youth Olympic champion, Dubois - who reached the quarter-finals at Tokyo 2020 - missed with a few wild swings in the opening rounds but did land a flush left at the end of the first.

“If you print the songs flush left,” he added, “it doesn’t represent, visually, the audible experience.”

As the designer recalls, “He would call up and say, ‘Gee, I saw that one sign, and I wonder if that shouldn’t be centered rather than flush left.’”

Thus it sidesteps debates on serif vs. sans serif type, justified vs. flush left / rag right setting, symmetrical vs. asymmetrical layouts, and so on.

His head and shoulders covered with wood chips, his garments torn, his knees trembling, and his face so white with terror that the nose itself had only the faintest flush left of its usual redness.