Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time. — Ed Benguiat Copy Share Image
“A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.” — Carolina de Bartolo Copy Share Image
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear. — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters. — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes. — Gerrit Noordzij Copy Share Image
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography… — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us… — Ellen Lupton Copy Share Image
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how… — Neville Brody Copy Share Image
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Old typography or letter woodblocks that are hand-carved, cracked, and worn are especially beautiful. I love that aged, handmade effect, and that's… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see… — Ji Lee Copy Share Image
In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New… — John Butler Copy Share Image
Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated… — Alan Cooper Copy Share Image
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote,… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“We may say then that the contribution of the telegraph to public discourse was to dignify irrelevance and amplify impotence. But this… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“A page of a book is like a human face. Look at a page by Hemingway and compare it with Sterne and… — Stefan Themerson Copy Share Image
If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“Exposition is a mode of thought, a method of learning, and a means of expression. Almost all of the characteristics we associate… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
