Blight Quote by Ellen Lupton

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

— Stanley Morison

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

Looking at font serifs is fun.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

“blackletter has come to represent a certain reverence and antiquity. There are various forms, such as the French/Flemish Bâtarde, or the German Schwabacher and…

— Stephen Coles

Typography exists to honor content.

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any…

— Marshall McLuhan

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.

— Virginia Postrel

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered…

— Virginia Postrel

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

— Robert Bringhurst

“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the…

— Robert Bringhurst

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

— Beatrice Warde