Typography Quotes
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What's the use of being legible, when nothing inspires you to take notice of it?
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Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language is forming out assholes.
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Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries simply cannot take everything that is printed today. It is the typographer's task to divide up and organize and interpret this mass of printed matter in such a way that the reader will have a good chance of finding what is of interest to him.
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The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.
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For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
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Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
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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.
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Typography is what language looks like.
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Old typography or letter woodblocks that are hand-carved, cracked, and worn are especially beautiful. I love that aged, handmade effect, and that's why I don't muck around much with Photoshop.
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Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
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The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer’s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
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There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
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Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design's most humane functions is in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
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To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively.
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Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. lthough many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.
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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.
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Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?
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There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.
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They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.
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Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.
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To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.
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I haven't studied art and I haven't studied typography, but I've still gone out and done it.
