Quotes About Typography

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog," which, Mr. Holcombe pointed out, contained every letter in the alphabet. I checked, and he turned out to be right.

There's even a shirt for them." "What does it say? I Brake for Fonts?" "No. It just says Helvetica, which is a very well-known and well-loved font, but the T-shirt's font is in Comic Sans, which font nerds absolutely detest." Julie

In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original. So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.

Don't confuse legibility with communication.

Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words.

Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

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.

Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.

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

Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner.

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.

Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

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.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.