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Typography is what language looks like. -- Ellen Lupton
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. -- Neville Brody
Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography. -- Herb Lubalin
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. -- Robert Bringhurst
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced. -- Helmut Schmid
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. -- Robert Bringhurst
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. -- Emil Ruder
To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed. -- Walter Tracy
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique. -- Wolfgang Weingart
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar -- Marshall McLuhan
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal. -- Eric Gill
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography. -- Herb Lubalin
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy. -- Jan Tschichold
To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi. -- Ed Benguiat
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. -- Herbert Bayer
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile. -- Will Self
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. -- Ellen Lupton
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. -- Vincent Connare
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. -- Robert Bringhurst
There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture. -- Bruno Maag
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country to understand its history, so also it is not enough to know the anatomy of organs to understand their functions. -- Claude Bernard
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. -- James Fenton
Typography exists to honor content. -- Robert Bringhurst
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life. -- Stanley Morison
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. -- Robert Bringhurst
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity. -- Marshall McLuhan
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration. -- Neil Postman
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language is forming out assholes. -- Neville Brody
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. -- Adrian Frutiger
Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also patterns of communal interdependence. -- Marshall McLuhan
Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information. Typography should not vary widely in an interface. -- Alan Cooper
Simplicity, wit, and good typography. -- Michael Bierut
Perfect typography is more a science than an art. -- Jan Tschichold
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help, -- Edward Tufte
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography. -- Herb Lubalin
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying... -- Michael Bierut
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken. -- Jeffery Keedy
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography! -- Emil Ruder
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible. -- Erik Spiekermann
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside. -- Beatrice Warde
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things. -- Stefan Sagmeister
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. -- Michael Bierut
Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea. -- Paul Rand
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. -- Tom Wolfe
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