Being successful Quote by Stanley Morison

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered…

— Virginia Postrel

When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is…

— Frederic Goudy

Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve -…

— Virginia Postrel

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 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

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

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

— Rick Poynor

There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the…

— J. B. Priestley

Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.

— Wolfgang Weingart

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways,…

— Aaron Tveit

There are people that thinks that type should be expressive. They have a different point of view from mine.

— Massimo Vignelli

“There's nothing wrong with this. Other than sentimentality, the typewriter offers nothing special to the act of writing. What an author uses to write…

— Todd Michael Cox