Beatrice Warde quotes

Beatrice Warde quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.”
-- Beatrice Warde

#Talking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Voice Quotes
“People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.”
-- Beatrice Warde

#Clothes Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes
“Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse - each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.”
-- Beatrice Warde

#People Quotes #Design Quotes #Personality Quotes
“Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.”
-- Beatrice Warde

#Art Quotes #Humility Quotes #Self Quotes
“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

#Art Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Typography Quotes
“There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.”
-- Beatrice Warde

#Wise Quotes #Simple Quotes #Men Quotes

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