Jonathan Hoefler quotes

“All typefaces are historical.”
-- Jonathan Hoefler

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“And Helvetica maybe says everything, and that's perhaps part of its appeal.”
-- Jonathan Hoefler

Source : "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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“There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.”
-- Jonathan Hoefler

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“There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.”
-- Jonathan Hoefler

Source : "The Life-Long Sentence". Interview with with Tony Leuzzi, brooklynrail.org. July 15, 2014.

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“I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.”

“By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.”

“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”

“Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.”

“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”

“History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.”

“All typefaces are historical.”

“Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.”

“Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.”

“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.”