Jan Tschichold quotes
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“Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.”
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“The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.”
-- Jan TschicholdSource : Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers
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“White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.”
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“Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry.”
-- Jan TschicholdSource : Jan Tschichold (1995). “The new typography: a handbook for modern designers”, Univ of California Pr
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“The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.”
-- Jan TschicholdSource : Jan Tschichold (1967). “Asymmetric Typography”, New York : Reinhold Publishing Corporation
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“Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design.”
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“My errors were more fertile than I ever imagined.”
-- Jan TschicholdSource : Jan Tschichold, Günter Bose, Erich Brinkmann (1991). “Schriften: 1925-1974 : Ausgabe in zwei Bänden”
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“We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.”
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“The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.”
-- Jan TschicholdSource : Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers
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“Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.”
-- Jan TschicholdSource : Jan Tschichold (1995). “The new typography: a handbook for modern designers”, Univ of California Pr
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“Perfect typography is more a science than an art.”
-- Jan TschicholdSource : Jan Tschichold, Robert Bringhurst, Hajo Hadeler (1991). “The form of the book: essays on the morality of good design”, Hartley & Marks Publishers
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“Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.”
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