Typography Quotes

80 quotes by 43 authors

If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help, — Edward Tufte
Writing is not a series of strokes, but space, divided into characteristic shapes by strokes. — Gerrit Noordzij
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its… — Adrian Frutiger
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar — Marshall McLuhan
The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are… — Giambattista Bodoni
Continued experiment with dog today. — Eric Gill
A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to… — Aldous Huxley
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
As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot. — Erik Spiekermann
Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep. — Frederic Goudy
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the… — Jan Tschichold
All the old fellows stole our best ideas. — Frederic Goudy
I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last,… — George Bernard Shaw
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear. — Beatrice Warde
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven… — Stefan Sagmeister
I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a… — Kyle Cooper
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… — Beatrice Warde
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint.… — Stanley Morison
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile. — Will Self
Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a… — Will Burtin

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