Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of… — Beatrice Warde 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, ideas. — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside. — Beatrice Warde 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 people delivering… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
“The twinkle that softens the review; the martyr's super-logic and the child's intuition; the fact that a fragment of moss can pull back into… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly… — Beatrice Warde 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
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
