Quotes About Type Design

#1. 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

#2. Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

Stanley Morison

#3. The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

Jeffery Keedy

#4. The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.

Virginia Postrel

#5. When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.

Frederic Goudy

#6. A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

Aldous Huxley

#7. When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.

Bob Woodward

#8. The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording.

Thomas Bangalter

#9. Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me.
I sighed. This trip might take awhile.
"Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself.
I set off, off to kill the man I loved.

Richelle Mead

#10. To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed.

Walter Tracy

#11. ...as I have been thinking about this, I decided it might be better to be a broken man than a man who never risked breaking anything.

Douglas Wilson

#12. System design is not considered in this type of testing. Tests are based on requirements and functionality.

Anonymous

#13. Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Carl Sandburg

#14. As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

Matthew Carter

#15. Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Ted Nelson

#16. About half of all design patterns out there [ ... ] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes

Steve Yegge

#17. Sometimes you just gotta use what God gave you to the best of your abilities.

Zach Braff

#18. Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types ... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.

Jan Tschichold

#19. My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

Michel Legrand

#20. I grew up very comfortable in this bizarre, circus-like existence, but, as comfortable as I was, I was also aware of the struggles that actors go through.

Alexa Davalos

#21. on average about 7,500 searches are performed every single second of every day.1

Eric Enge

#22. There is only love to save this world. Why would I be ashamed to love?

Julie Maroh

#23. The Homebrew Computer Club was the highlight of my life. I was too shy to ever talk in the club meeting, but the way that I could communicate sometimes was by doing good designs. I was very skilled at a certain type of circuit design.

Steve Wozniak

#24. Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in the dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.

Fulton J. Sheen

#25. Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

Colleen Atwood

#26. The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.

Michael Denton

#27. I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.

Autre Ne Veut

#28. If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Socrates