Typography Quotes

80 quotes by 39 authors

Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to… — Adrian Frutiger
Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors… — Alan Cooper
To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi. — Ed Benguiat
Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time. — Ed Benguiat
I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad. — Ed Benguiat
The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved.… — Ed Benguiat
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography! — Emil Ruder
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life. — Stanley Morison
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these… — Ellen Lupton
There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it… — Bruno Maag
Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenkoâ€¦ all believed in the social role of artâ€¦ Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art… — John Berger
Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces. — Wolfgang Weingart
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique. — Wolfgang Weingart
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to… — James Fenton
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like… — Robert Bringhurst
A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add… — Robert Bringhurst
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution… — Paul Rand
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a… — Tom Wolfe
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things. — Stefan Sagmeister

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