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Typography Quotes by Beatrice Warde
- Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.
- People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.
- 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…
- 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.
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