Quotes About Legibility

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

Eric Gill

#2. Never mistake legibility for communication.

David Carson

#3. The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.

Michel De Certeau

#4. Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Other days are more dismal. As if I were queueing in the rain outside confessional literature's nudist colony, mirrors everywhere, blue with cold.

Fredrik Sjoberg

#5. Practice makes legibility!

A.J. DeJong

#6. The act of writing if one is conscious of legibility is a wonderful discipline. Our minds, which roil like captured oceans, are forced to order themselves and to send coherent messages through our fingers...writing is like yoga or Thai Chi; it forces our bodies to obey our minds.

Edward St Paige

#7. From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

Adrian Frutiger

#8. The cultivation of a single staple grain was, in itself, an important step in legibility and hence, appropriation. Monoculture fosters uniformity at many different levels. . .A society shaped powerfully by monoculture was easier to monitor, assess, and tax than one shaped by agricultural diversity.

James C. Scott

#9. Sometimes you sacrifice legibility to increase impact.

Herb Lubalin

#10. Dont confuse legibility with communication. Just because something is legible doesnt mean it communicates and, more importantly, doesnt mean it communicates the right thing.

David Carson

#11. You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Steve Earle

#12. I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.

Rodney Dangerfield

#13. It's all about family [jake]. It was always about family. It will always be that way if I have anything to say about it.

Fern Michaels

#14. Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Kahlil Gibran

#15. I love reading novels, and I love going to movies, but I kind of hate going to an adaptation of a novel, and it starts off with a voiceover.

David Benioff

#16. Remember that whatever you do or wherever you are, you are never alone.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#17. The white man who begins by cheating a Negro usually ends by cheating a white man. The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.

Booker T. Washington

#18. I have never heard of a tradition among Jews that encourages us to support each others' differences. Quite the contrary. What I've always been taught is that Jews forever see each other as bitter enemies whose differences are irreconcilable.

Irena Klepfisz

#19. I'm becoming more and more of a social media participant, so of course I can always be found everywhere from Twitter to Insta to Facebook.

Aeriel Miranda

#20. There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

Peter Eisenman

#21. Sassicaia from Tuscany,

Aubrey James

#22. Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates.

David Carson

#23. My drum sticks are in the 'Hall of Fame.' I know that.

Jimmy Carl Black

#24. Normally you hear about Southeast London, and you hear about all the stuff that goes on down there, all the negative things, and the tabloids kind of stay away from all the positive things that happen that I see every day, which kind of outshines the negative.

John Boyega