Quotes About Typefaces

#1. Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

Rick Poynor

#2. All typefaces are historical.

Jonathan Hoefler

#3. Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

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

Wolfgang Weingart

#5. My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.

Will Self

#7. Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages.

Steven Heller

#8. In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.

Massimo Vignelli

#9. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

Steve Jobs

#10. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

Steve Jobs

#11. Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve - developing typefaces that work on mobile phones, for one - and enabled better solutions to old problems.

Virginia Postrel

#12. The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

Zuzana Licko

#13. How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?

Rian Hughes

#14. A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.

Peter Landesman

#15. 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

#16. When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?

Shel Silverstein

#17. This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

Adolf Hitler

#18. When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.

Ziauddin Yousafzai

#19. Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected.

Ludwig Quidde

#20. We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don't deal with ALL OF LIFE you're not going to get all that life has to offer.

Zig Ziglar

#21. We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.

Peter Wessel Zapffe

#22. If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

Naomi Wallace

#23. I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

Terry Riley

#24. A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Samuel Johnson

#25. Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#26. It is always delightful when a great and beautiful idea proves to be consonant with reality.

Albert Einstein

#27. A shrieking battle cry echoed on the wind, a spine-tingling scream that sounded like the baying of the wolves closing in on their prey.

Raymond E. Feist

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

Walter Tracy

#29. Your divine mate already exists. When you get to the place in yourself that is peaceful divine love, your true mate will be revealed.

Iyanla Vanzant

#30. Chess is a good mistress but a bad master.

Gerald Abrahams