Typography Quotes

80 quotes by 43 authors

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to… — Claude Bernard
Typography is what language looks like. — Ellen Lupton
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying... — Michael Bierut
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
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is… — Renzo Piano
The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text… — Douglas Groothuis
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. — Emil Ruder
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. — Jan Tschichold
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. — Robert Bringhurst
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. — Robert Bringhurst
Designers provide ways intoâ€”and out ofâ€”the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.… — Ellen Lupton
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. — Neville Brody
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography. — Herb Lubalin
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the… — Robert Bringhurst
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read,… — Robert Bringhurst
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of… — Robert Bringhurst
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless… — Robert Bringhurst

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