What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it? — Wolfgang Weingart Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying... — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography! — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do;… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable… — Herbert Bayer Copy Share Image
A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use… — Kyle Cooper Copy Share Image
“However, [Edmund G. Gress] wrote, " we must not simplify to such an extent that life and movement are gone. That is… — Steven Heller Copy Share Image
The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much… — Ed Benguiat Copy Share Image
The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to… — Zuzana Licko Copy Share Image
“I have little interest in illustration, which lacks a kind of transcendental quality. It is too literal. I find typography more straightforward,… — Timothy Samara Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools. — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help, — Edward Tufte Copy Share Image
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees,… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words,… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space,… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. []… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
“Good typography can help your reader devote less attention to the mechanics of reading and more attention to your message. Conversely, bad… — Matthew Butterick Copy Share Image
Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas… — Michael Bierut 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
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt… — Jessica Hische Copy Share Image
![“However, [Edmund G. Gress] wrote, " we must not simplify to such an extent that life and movement are gone. That is where those persons go wrong who claim that type was made to read, and nothing else matters but the setting up of a paragraph in a legible type so that it can be easily read. We do…” quote by Steven Heller](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/769/steven-heller-45770_font_however-edmund-g-gress-wrote-we-must-not_1492313.jpg)
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