19th century Quote by Michael Bierut

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great.…

— Steve Jobs

“Minion is perhaps the most vanilla of serif typefaces. This isn’t necessarily a negative — often the goal of a text face is to…

— Stephen Coles

The studies I've seen about readability and legibility tend to focus on a specific set of metrics: size, not just the point size, but…

— Michael Bierut

I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two.

— Michael Bierut

It's a cliché, but typefaces are really just ingredients.

— Michael Bierut

Certain kinds of typeface design and typographic design are designed to persuade: we can make this company look modern if we use a crisp…

— Michael Bierut

I grew up in a Cleveland suburb called Parma, Ohio. Somewhere along the way I fell in love with a typeface called Bodoni. It…

— Michael Bierut

There was a time when most people had a choice between two kinds of personal communication, handwriting or using a typewriter. Today, people are…

— Michael Bierut

Most people have no idea how much goes into designing a typeface. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, usually with two versions of each, upper…

— Michael Bierut

It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's a pretty…

— Michael Bierut

I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.

— Harry Shearer

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to…

— Sylvia Plath