There is a subtle jauntiness that pervades the designs of Jonas Gerber — often a simple disruption of the grid. It isn’t mathematical and it doesn’t feel overly proud. Seems simply a sophisticated move to give the general (often beautiful) rigidity of the graphic design more dimension, power, and legibility via small tension(s) — maybe micro-tensions or small displacements.

Related, from Nathalie Sarraute, “A slight imbalance, a hesitation in the sentence, allows the underlying tension to appear.”