Adults Quote by Jan Tschichold

I believe sans serif typefaces - today upheld as models of neutrality and legibility - were called "Grotesques" in the 19th century because people…

— Michael Bierut

“When sans serif printing type first appeared in the early to mid-1800s, some found the style so strange they called it “grotesque.” These typefaces…

— Stephen Coles

The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.

— Wim Crouwel

There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Carol Twombly’s source was Trajan’s Column, an early 2nd-century monument in Rome. While the letters were inscribed into stone with a chisel, recent research…

— Stephen Coles

“Most people will likely encounter Ingeborg’s showy Display variants: the decorative fill and shadow of Block, and the buxom swashes of Fat Italic. These…

— Stephen Coles

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted…

— Victor Hugo

“This torn typography of healed glyphs a stuttered ancient alphabet in skin spells warrior tales of battles lost and gained and homecomings hard won…

— Munro Sickafoose

“What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?" "To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was of very…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It was the kind of sword that would make a lifelong pacifist look for tall boots and a hat with feathers.

— Ilona Andrews

Metellus Numidicus, the censor, acknowledged to the Roman people, in a public oration, that had kind nature allowed us to exist without the help…

— Edward Gibbon

I heard no longer The snowy-banded, dilettante, Delicate-handed priest intone.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson