Quotes About Typesetting

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

I was staying in a house beside the machair. In front of this house was a stretch of lawn, and at the edge of the lawn there was a river. By the riverside, its door wide open, was a shed into which I wandered. Inside the shed was a large art nouveau typesetting machine. I was being called, and I turned away from my discovery of the typesetting machine to make my way back to the house and to our hostess. People in dreams do not always have names, but she did. She was called Mrs. MacGregor.

Capitals are called uppercase letters because typesetters would store them in the "upper case." Small letters were kept in the "lower case.

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

And another small point, or two actually; Aldus was the first to use the modern semicolon.

Discounting every punctuation mark and every space—which any printer knows occupy just as much time to set as does a single letter—there are no fewer than 227,779,589 letters and numbers.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

nostalgia such as can be known only by those who remember the days of hot metal typesetting and noisy composing rooms

If there is an essential truism in typesetting, it is that a page contains no voids, only spaces between printed elements. The essence of typesetting is regulating the size of those spaces to control the balance and rhythm between black and white. This is the key to a graphically harmonious page—one with good type color—as well as to text that is pleasing and easy to read.