Frederic Goudy quotes
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“Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.”
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“Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.”
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“Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.”
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“All the old fellows stole our best ideas.”
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“When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.”
-- Frederic GoudySource : Frederic William Goudy (1940). “Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing”, p.43, Univ of California Press
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“Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.”
-- Frederic Goudy
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Source : Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor
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“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness”
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“Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.”
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“The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.”
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Source : A. L. Kennedy (2007). “Day”, Random House
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