Quotes About Helvetica

#1. If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.

Bruno Maag

#2. You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work.

Massimo Vignelli

#3. What makes Helvetica more beautiful is the word "Helvetica" as a logotype in its typeface. It just makes the rest of the alphabets effective.

Shawn Lukas

#4. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface, and that is why we loved Helvetica very much.

Wim Crouwel

#5. 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

#6. Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.

Wolfgang Weingart

#7. Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.

Adrian Frutiger

#8. Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

Paula Scher

#9. And Helvetica maybe says everything, and that's perhaps part of its appeal.

Jonathan Hoefler

#10. If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

David Carson

#11. Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface ... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.

Wim Crouwel

#12. Lower case Ss are notoriously difficult to get right. But in Helvetica it's not straight - you want to go in there and tighten it up. And the 'a' looks so woolly and ill-conceived, it really winds me up.

Bruno Maag

#13. I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".

Kyle Cooper

#14. Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Brian Jacques

#15. It was said Daredevil grew up in Hell's Kitchen, an amazing name for a neighbourhood. But that opened a Pandora's box of all the crime stuff I wanted to do. I borrowed liberally from Will Eisner's 'The Spirit' and turned 'Daredevil' into a crime comic.

Frank Miller

#16. I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.

Massimo Vignelli

#17. A mother comforts, a mother cleans. A mother gives when any reasonable person would deny. Life might affix any number of labels to Vera- Russian, pensioner, widow, daughter- but when she looked to her washed-out reflection in the bathroom mirror, she saw only Lydia's mother.

Anthony Marra

#18. He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#19. Jack might look my age, but he was like a little kid on a sugar high
in need of a good spanking.
Good heavens, that sounded creepy.

Kiersten White

#20. It is terribly important to do certain things, such as wear overembroidered dresses. After all, the mass follows class. Class never follows mass.

Imelda Marcos

#21. There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Daniel O'Connell

#22. God, thank you for this cake and Finn's chain saw," Gabe says. "Are you happy?

Maggie Stiefvater

#23. I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Donald Trump

#24. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

Henry Miller

#25. I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

John Oates

#26. In my sixteen years, I have experienced heartbreak, tragedy and transcending love. In my thirteenth year, I moved to Westerly and experienced all three.

Jaycee Relic