Typography Quotes

80 quotes by 43 authors

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration. — Neil Postman
All typefaces are historical. — Jonathan Hoefler
To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed. — Walter Tracy
When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a… — Frederic Goudy
Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness… — Eric Gill
Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately. — Erik Spiekermann
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
Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written. — Neville Brody
The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples. — Pablo Neruda
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal. — Eric Gill
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name. — Frederic Goudy
Perfect typography is more a science than an art. — Jan Tschichold
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 experiments. — Beatrice Warde
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for… — Giambattista Bodoni
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold
...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead! — Massimo Vignelli
Typography exists to honor content. — Robert Bringhurst
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. — Jeffery Keedy
I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars… — Laini Taylor
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designerâ€™s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious… — Adrian Frutiger

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