To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi. — Ed Benguiat Copy Share Image
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography. — Herb Lubalin Copy Share Image
A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose. — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler 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
Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off… — Wolfgang Weingart Copy Share Image
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration. — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful… — 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
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because… — Frederic Goudy Copy Share Image
We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
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 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
![“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/quotes/i/769/steven-heller-45770_font_however-edmund-g-gress-wrote-we-must-not_1492313.jpg)
