Typography Quotes · Page 2

Typography is what language looks like.

— Ellen Lupton

The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.

— Pablo Neruda

All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

— Frederic Goudy

“Typography has suffered from the advent of technology,”

— Anonymous

All typefaces are historical.

— Jonathan Hoefler

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

— Matthew Carter

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

— Neville Brody

Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.

— Ed Benguiat

“A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.”

— Carolina de Bartolo

The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.

— Herb Lubalin

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

— Erik Spiekermann

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

— Ed Benguiat

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

— Ed Benguiat

Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off…

— Wolfgang Weingart

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.

— Neil Postman

If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography…

— Vincent Connare

There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you…

— Bruno Maag

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

— Erik Spiekermann

Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless…

— Jan Tschichold

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

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been…

— Beatrice Warde

Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different…

— Beatrice Warde

I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online…

— Masha Tupitsyn

Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through…

— Ellen Lupton

We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a…

— Michael Bierut

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By…

— Ellen Lupton

When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because…

— Frederic Goudy

“One of my colleagues is convinced that having a wide range of types to choose from is a complete waste of time.…

— Anonymous

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

— Herb Lubalin

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

— Raymond Chandler

A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.

— Emil Ruder

I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.

— Ben Eine

...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

— Massimo Vignelli

Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.

— Helmut Schmid

For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

— Wolfgang Weingart

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

— Jeffery Keedy

“Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.”

— Matthew Carter

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

— Frederic Goudy