Typography Quotes
Typography Quote of the day
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying.
If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.
To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the words.
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration.
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help.
Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.
Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration
