19th century Quote by 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

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look…

— Ted Naifeh

“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

Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I…

— Wolfgang Weingart

“One of my colleagues is convinced that having a wide range of types to choose from is a complete waste of time. He swears…

— Anonymous

“Since we live in a world of appearances, people are judged by what they seem to be. If the mind can't read the predictable…

— Erik Pevernagie

When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally…

— Flannery O'Connor

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

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.

— Anonymous

Putting beautiful typefaces on weak ad .. Is like Putting make-up on a corpse it may look beautiful, But it is still dead.

— Stavros Cosmopulos

I guess if there was a desert island scenario and I only could take one font with me, I guess it would be Helvetica,…

— Khoi Vinh