Quotes About Typography

Do you know what demonic metal is?" I said, "I assume it's heavy metal with a lot of pretentious references to demons. Plus gothic typography, of course.

Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

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 .

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

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.

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.

Type designers are, at their best, the Stradivarii of literature: not merely makers of salable products, but artists who design and make the instruments that other artists use.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

There go more italics! But a few italics really do relieve your feelings.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

I enjoy doing layoutproblems of design. I could very cheerfully be a typographer.

it is called 'camel case' or 'intercapping' -- of writing small letters next to large in the same word, as in such popular significations as iPod, eBay, iTunes, etc. which few would argue is a distinct sign of illiteracy.

I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

That man was Aldus Manutius the Elder (1450-1515) and I will happily admit I hadn't heard of him until about a year ago, but am now absolutely kicking myself that I never volunteered to have his babies.

it was Manutius who invented italics, introduced the semicolon and gave the comma its distinctive hooked shape. As

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

Xerography is electricity invading the world of typography, and it means a total revolution in this old sphere.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

Spell < tear=dropps > with a dubble < p > at the end, and use a < = > to join the words -- I find it looks much more melancholy; ergo, more correct -: