Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold 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
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique. — Wolfgang Weingart Copy Share Image
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. — Jeffery Keedy Copy Share Image
“Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.” — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it. — Ben Eine 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
“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
“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
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
We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking. — Neville Brody Copy Share Image
The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to… — Eric Gill 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… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
In the eighties, I was fortunate to be one of the young art directors that Jerry Roach, creative director at JWT New… — John Butler Copy Share Image
If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter… — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity… — John Berger 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… — Beatrice Warde 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
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
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
...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced. — Helmut Schmid Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it? — Wolfgang Weingart Copy Share Image
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name. — Frederic Goudy 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
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first… — Giambattista Bodoni 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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