Typography Quotes - Page 4

• Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

  Alan Cooper

  Simple, Color, Simplicity

  Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin (2012). “About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design”, p.308, John Wiley & Sons

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

  11 Copy quote

• Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

  Eric Gill

  Writing, Character, Men

  Eric Gill, Christopher Skelton (1993). “An Essay on Typography”, p.121, David R. Godine Publisher

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

  Neville Brody

  Thinking, People, Design

  104 Copy quote

• Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

  Neville Brody

  Focus, Design, Written Word

  114 Copy quote

• The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.

  Pablo Neruda

  Hymns, Design, Ardent

  4 Copy quote

• Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

  Frederic Goudy

  Names, Design, Someday

  33 Copy quote

• Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

  Beatrice Warde

  Art, Humility, Self

  16 Copy quote

• Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

  Jan Tschichold

  Book, Design, Literature

  48 Copy quote

• ...if all people doing desktop publishing were doctors we would all be dead!

  Massimo Vignelli

  Doctors, People, Design

  11 Copy quote

• The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

  Jeffery Keedy

  Broken, Design, Firsts

  11 Copy quote

• Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language is forming out assholes.

  Neville Brody

  Teaching, School, Tools

  108 Copy quote

• Everyone complains that we can no longer intake huge chunks of text. I find that a reason to celebrate. It's something that has deep roots in modernism, stretching from the Futurists' use of typography to Pound's use of ideograms to concrete poetry.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Roots, Complaining, Use

  Source: logger.believermag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth.

  Douglas Groothuis

  Book, Reading, Thoughtful

  6 Copy quote

• In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Dark, Men, Space

  9 Copy quote

• In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Fashion, Order, Goal

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

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Perception, Language

  Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.183, University of Toronto Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Art, Firsts, Type

  20 Copy quote

• I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.

  Jessica Hische

  College, Design, Feels

  Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Reading, Design

  9 Copy quote

• A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .

  Robert Bringhurst

  Men, Sheep, Add

  4 Copy quote

• I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Obvious, Persons, Extensions

  "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

  Ellen Lupton

  Design, Identity, Gliding

  Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.99, Chronicle Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.

  Edward Tufte

  Inspirational, Motivational, Design

  4 Copy quote

• Continued experiment with dog today.

  Eric Gill

  Dog, Design, Today

  24 Copy quote