Typography Quotes - Page 2

• Good things come to those who initiate.

  Susan RoAne

  Patience, Fitness, Workout

  Susan RoAne (2009). “Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

  Walter Tracy

  Wife, Design, Married

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• The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Spoons, Shapes, Soup

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Light, White, Space

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• There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

  Eric Gill

  Design, Different, Letters

  Eric Gill (2016). “An Essay on Typography”, p.43, Laurus

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• Doing something a long time does not mean you're good. It only means you've done it a long time.

  Ed Benguiat

  Mean, Long, Design

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• Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Kings, White, Space

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• Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity.

  Stanley Morison

  Mean, Discipline, Simplicity

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• Good things come to those who hustle

  Chuck Noll

  Fitness, Patience, Workout

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• Typography exists to honor content.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Design, Honor

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• By all means break the rules.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Mean, Break

  "The Elements of Typographic Style". Book by Robert Bringhurst, 1992.

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• Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Design

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• The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

  Zuzana Licko

  Inspirational, Motivational, Reading

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• It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

  Eric Gill

  Design, Testing, Ideals

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• All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

  Frederic Goudy

  Ideas, Design, Fellows

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• The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beautiful, Lunch, Design

  "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.

  Will Self

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Will Self (2012). “How the Dead Live”, p.74, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them.

  Wolfgang Weingart

  Cutting, Design, Attractive

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• Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

  Daniel Handler

  Truth, Business, Book

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• What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?

  Wolfgang Weingart

  Inspirational, Inspire, Use

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• Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions.

  Claude Bernard

  Country, Anatomy And Physiology, Enough

  Claude Bernard (1974). “Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

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• Typography is what language looks like.

  Ellen Lupton

  Hipster, Looks, Language

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.1, Chronicle Books

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• As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

  Matthew Carter

  Beautiful, Design, Groups

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• Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

  Michael Bierut

  Creativity, Simplicity, Design

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