Top 6 Simon Garfield Quotes

#1. Everybody wants to design a bloody typeface.

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#2. Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon

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#3. Of course you can judge a book by its cover; moreover, we are obliged to.

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#4. Type has rhythm, just like music.

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#5. One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker's Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, 'Thou shalt commit adultery.

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#6. In 1979 the New York Times reported that in many {New York Subway} stations, the signs are so confusing that one is tempted to wish they were not there at all - a wish that is, in fact, granted in numerous stations and on all too many of the subway cars themselves.

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