Design Quote by Edward Tufte

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the…

— Gretchen Rubin

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

— Joseph Joubert

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

— Joseph Joubert

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

— Amin Maalouf

The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.

— Piet Zwart

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

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the…

— Katherine Mansfield

“It was beyond imagining that bad font influences judgments of truth and improves cognitive performance, or that an emotional response to the cognitive ease…

— Daniel Kahneman

“As you no doubt gathered, I do not devote the care to word selection and organization in my letters that I do in my…

— Janet Malcolm

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

— Ram Dass

Typography exists to honor content.

— Robert Bringhurst