Quotes About Typography

It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. Would you write 'A Happy Birthday' on it for me?

There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.

Type is your brand.

Across the page the numbers moved in grave morrice, in the mummery of their letters, wearing quaint caps of squares and cubes.

If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.

Capital Letters Were Always The Best Way Of Dealing With Things You Didn't Have A Good Answer To.

We lost handwriting and got Comic Sans in return. That's a very bad deal.

I don't know what an interrobang is." "It's a glyph that combines a question mark and an exclamation point.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

Don't mistake legibility for communication

Never mistake legibility for communication.

Typography exists to honor content.

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

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

We typed 'Boobs'.

cyan, magenta, yellow and black

No Comic Sans?

You might say she feels in italics and thinks in capital letters!

Says John Updike, 'Serifs exist for a purpose. They help the eye pick up the shape of the letter. Piquant in little amounts, sanserif in page-size sheets repels readership as wax paper repels water; it has a sleazy, cloudy look.

The designs involved two abiding techniques by Roman stonemasons. First, certain parts of each letter was subtly widened – one leg of the A, two opposite sides of the O – in contrast to others. This gave the shape a sense of perspective and graceful solidity. The second technique was to add small finishing strokes (we call them serifs) at the letters' end points. Clear examples include letters E, G, H, S and T.

In his wonderful 1529 book on the alphabet, 'Champ Fleury,' (French Renaissance scholar and type designer Geofroy) Tory deals gently but firmly with H: "The aspirate is not a letter; nonetheless it is by poetic licence given place as a letter.

Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.

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 only way to reform modern lettering is to abolish it.