Quotes About Typeface

#1. Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

Frederic Goudy

#2. At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.

David Sedaris

#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. Jack quit his advertising job and devoted himself to the life of the pen. Or rather, to the life of the Remington, soon to be replaced with an IBM Selectric, with the bouncing ball that let you change the typeface. Now that was cool!

Margaret Atwood

#6. By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.

Roger Black

#7. 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

#8. To make a simple change of a typeface can instantly transform text which had the appearance and tone of a joyous announcement to suddenly convey that of a somber tragedy.

Paul Babicki

#9. 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

#10. When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn't added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.

Adrian Frutiger

#11. There were voices on the other side - eldritch voices, the sort of voices that mere typography will remain totally unable to convey until someone can make a linotype machine with echo-reverb and, possibly, a typeface that looks like something said by a slug.

Terry Pratchett

#12. A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.

Walter Tracy

#13. Everybody wants to design a bloody typeface.

Simon Garfield

#14. 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.

Wolfgang Weingart

#15. The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.

Martin Freeman

#16. If you look for God in your relationships, you will always find things to be thankful for. When God reigns in our hearts, peace reigns in our relationships. This work will only be complete in heaven but there is much we can enjoy now.

Timothy S. Lane

#17. When they had eventually calmed down a bit, and had gotten home, Mr. Duncan put the magic pebble in an iron safe. Some day they might want to use it, but really, for now, what more could they wish for? They all had all that they wanted.

William Steig

#18. A centuries-old message from my depths, it warned me to guard against myself, and go running in the sun.

Goliarda Sapienza

#19. Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

H.G.Wells

#20. Immerse yourself in the Word of God and what He has to say and get your eyes and your emotions, as hard as that might be, get them off the situation and turn to Him.

Frances Newton

#21. I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#22. When we think of what is necessary for the phenomenon that we call life, we think of compartmentalization, keeping the molecules which are important for life in a membrane, isolated from the rest of the environment, but yet, in an environment in which they actually could originate together.

Dimitar Sasselov

#23. But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

William Labov

#24. Your disbelief cures nothing.

Sarah Kane

#25. I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

Keri Hulme

#26. If you throw up," Kles said unsympathetically, "remember not to face the wind."
"Yeah, Koko. You're the one who's been complaining about doing the same things lately," Leech said. "Enjoy it."
"Oog, and double oog," was all Koko could say.

Laurence Yep

#27. You have to understand that to have a revolution when you are 18 years old is completely different from normal political leaders who were born in a democracy and will die in a democracy and never to have experienced that change. I have seen that change.

Jose Manuel Barroso

#28. And the guilt and the loathing slipped away, pushed out by the overwhelming gratitude that I was alive, that I could feel, that I could hear the music.

Amy Harmon