Civilized Quote by Stanley Morison Download Open image “Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.” — Stanley Morison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilized Inspirational Life Minors Technicalities Typography
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language… — Neville Brody Copy Share Image
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this… — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy -… — Robert Bringhurst 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
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
“Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this… — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and… — Stanley Morison 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
Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is… — Stanley Morison Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
We're all intrigued, in our civilized world that we live in, and curious about how we would get on, on an undiscovered island that… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image