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Typography Quotes

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Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
Neville Brody

Typography is a clandestine instrument of control in society.
Authors on Typography Quotes: Robert Bringhurst Herb Lubalin Wolfgang Weingart Neville Brody Eric Gill Erik Spiekermann Frederic Goudy Stanley Morison Beatrice Warde Stefan Sagmeister Claude Bernard Jessica Hische Pablo Neruda Roger Black Jonathan Hoefler Ed Benguiat Vincent Connare Marshall McLuhan Helmut Schmid
2.
Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
Neville Brody

3.
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.
Herb Lubalin

4.
Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.
Herb Lubalin

5.
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

6.
Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.
Erik Spiekermann

7.
Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them.
Wolfgang Weingart

8.
Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.
Wolfgang Weingart

9.
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
Eric Gill

10.
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

11.
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.
Robert Bringhurst

12.
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.
Stefan Sagmeister

13.
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
Stanley Morison

14.
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
Frederic Goudy

15.
All the old fellows stole our best ideas.
Frederic Goudy

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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

17.
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
Robert Bringhurst

18.
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

19.
Typography exists to honor content.
Robert Bringhurst

20.
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.
Helmut Schmid

21.
All typefaces are historical.
Jonathan Hoefler

22.
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
Marshall McLuhan

23.
I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.
Jessica Hische

24.
By all means break the rules.
Robert Bringhurst

25.
I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.
Ed Benguiat

26.
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
Eric Gill

27.
By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.
Roger Black

28.
The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.
Pablo Neruda