Ingredients Quote by Michael Bierut Download Open image “It's a cliché, but typefaces are really just ingredients.” — Michael Bierut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ingredients Typefaces
Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring. — Rick Poynor Copy Share Image
As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters. — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not an expert in typefaces that serve scientific writing, but I'd guess that's another dozen or two. — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful,… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“From an innovative trio of Dutch, Finnish, and German designers comes a unique concept: a typeface with not one, but three italics. First, the… — Stephen Coles Copy Share Image
“Often the things that pop out of my typewriter regale me, especially when I am trying to say something else and in a different… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think once the artistic world of the type designer merged with the scientific world of the computer programmer, you began to see this… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
A lot of times, you design a logo to be timeless, but with something like the Olympics, timelessness is maybe not something you should… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also make it… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Australia is one of the few places that I can think of where the cities, at least those I've been to, seem to have… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious of the context, the history, the specific environment of anything that I design and what it is going to be operating… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Cooking brings me so much joy. I love everything, down to the execution of the plate to picking out fresh ingredients at the market.… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
“While taste conveys the complexity of life, a good chef should keep in mind that food can have a meaning that is often not… — N.M. Kelby Copy Share Image
“Does it work with sandwiches? he asked. I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching with a kind of neutral curiosity, and… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My dream as a passionate cook has been to go to Le Cordon Bleu. Never could my most incredible dream have lived up to… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
I think there is a big and significant difference between being a leader and being a manager-leaders lead from the heart. You have to… — Andrea Jung Copy Share Image
The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything. — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
