“You clock in to the clock. You clock out to the clock. You come home to the clock. You eat to the clock, you drink to the clock, you go to bed to the clock . . . You do that for… — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road, although to do so would be to deny oneself one of the great pleasures in life.… — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon” — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.” — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“You clock in to the clock. You clock out to the clock. You come home to the clock. You eat to the clock, you… — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker’s Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment… — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road,… — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“...the book typographer's job was building a window between the reader inside a room and that landscape which is the author's words. He may… — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“Ecofont is designed to save ink, money and eventually the planet, but heaven save us from worthy fonts. Ecofont is a program that adds… — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image
“In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to… — Simon Garfield Copy Share Image