quotes about Typography
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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 BernardSource : Claude Bernard (1974). “Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
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I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.
-- Ed Benguiat -
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
-- Eric Gill -
Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.
-- Erik Spiekermann -
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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 SpiekermannSource : "Helvetica". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.
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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 -
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.
-- Herb Lubalin -
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Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
-- Neville Brody -
Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.
-- Neville Brody -
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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
-- Robert Bringhurst -
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
-- Robert Bringhurst -
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
-- Stanley Morison -
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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 -
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 -
Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.
-- Wolfgang Weingart -
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.
-- Helmut Schmid -
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By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.
-- Roger Black -
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 -
Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.
-- Herb Lubalin -
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.
-- Herb Lubalin -
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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 HischeSource : Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk