Typography Quotes

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.

Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

Berthold is still a good typeface, but even Berthold has some less than attractive features, and then I just cut them off because I didn't like them.

Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

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.

By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.

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.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

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.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

Typography exists to honor content.

Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

All typefaces are historical.

By all means break the rules.

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.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.