Dozen Quote by Michael Bierut

“efore the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series of books began to appear in 1979, the scientific autobiography was a largely unfamiliar genre. One recalls…

— Anonymous

As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in…

— Vine Deloria Jr

Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.

— Edwin O. Reischauer

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

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

— 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

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

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

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts.…

— Steve Jobs