1.
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
Neville Brody
Typography is a clandestine instrument of control in society.
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
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
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
14.
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
Frederic Goudy
16.
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
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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
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Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.
Helmut Schmid
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
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
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By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.
Roger Black