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Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.
— Helmut Schmid
Typography is what language looks like.
— Ellen Lupton
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,
— Edward Tufte
When typography is on point, words become images.
— Shawn Lukas
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.
— Stefan Sagmeister
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
— Emil Ruder
Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages.
— Steven Heller
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
— Wolfgang Weingart
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
— Marshall McLuhan
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
— Neville Brody
A plain circular bullet is widely disdained for its banality.
— Carolina DeBartolo
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying ...
— Michael Bierut
Simplicity, wit, and good typography.
— Michael Bierut
The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples.
— Pablo Neruda
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.
— Erik Spiekermann
Anyone who uses Helvetica knows nothing about typefaces.
— Wolfgang Weingart
Perfect typography is more a science than an art.
— Jan Tschichold
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration
— Neil Postman
Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented. — James Felici
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
— Robert Bringhurst
Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.
— Erik Spiekermann
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image.
— Herbert Bayer
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography.
— Tristan Tzara
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.
— Herb Lubalin
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.
— Jeffery Keedy
What a graphic designer tries to do is make sure the typography is emotionally consistent with the brand.
— Michael Ian Kaye
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
— Marshall McLuhan
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
— Stanley Morison
Typography exists to honor content.
— Robert Bringhurst
By all means break the rules ...
— Robert Bringhurst
Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.
— Hermann Zapf
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
— Beatrice Warde
You can do a good ad without good typography, but you can't do a great ad without good typography.
— Herb Lubalin
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
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
— Jan Tschichold
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
— Eric Gill
All the old fellows stole our best ideas.
— Frederic Goudy
Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
— Frederic Goudy
All typefaces are historical.
— Jonathan Hoefler