Quotes About Typography Design

#1. The contributions that one makes in typography, design, and art in general cannot be, and must not be measured on how much money is involved. That would lead to total chaos. The word itself (contribution) is to give to a common purpose.

Ed Benguiat

#2. Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.

Hermann Zapf

#3. Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Emil Ruder

#4. All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

Frederic Goudy

#5. When typography is on point, words become images.

Shawn Lukas

#6. Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Michael Bierut

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

Steven Heller

#8. Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product.

Ellen Lupton

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

Jeffery Keedy

#10. Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written.

Neville Brody

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

Wolfgang Weingart

#12. What a graphic designer tries to do is make sure the typography is emotionally consistent with the brand.

Michael Ian Kaye

#13. 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

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

Roger Black

#15. Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Robert Bringhurst

#16. 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

#17. Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.

Helmut Schmid

#18. 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

#19. Typography exists to honor content.

Robert Bringhurst

#20. Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.

Tristan Tzara

#21. Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

Erik Spiekermann

#22. For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

Wolfgang Weingart

#23. I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

Ed Benguiat

#24. A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.

Carolina DeBartolo

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

Frederic Goudy

#26. It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.

Eric Gill

#27. Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

Jan Tschichold

#28. The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.

Pablo Neruda

#29. I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.

Jessica Hische

#30. All typefaces are historical.

Jonathan Hoefler

#31. They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

Emil Ruder

#32. Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Jan Tschichold