Member sup… Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 as much as i love type, i've got to disagree with this guy: “It is a rarer gift to lay words out properly than to write them” Nicholas Barker, writing of Will Carter Link to comment
Member Mis… Posted October 22, 2005 Author Share Posted October 22, 2005 I needed this for TypeCon this past July. However, keep them coming as I think others might find this a fun resource in the future. Glad to see people are still posting. Link to comment
Member dbe… Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of an elephant is the most momentous. — Frederic Goudy {what I read when I first saw the quote.} Link to comment
Member dez… Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 That's an eary quote David, you must have truncated one of the words :-) ChrisL Link to comment
Member alf… Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 Down with Univers! Long live Gill Sans! -- Leo Maggs in Types Best Remembered/Best Forgotten , ISBN 1884606008 Link to comment
Member alf… Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 "By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface." (or was it font?)" -- Roger Black (possibly at Type90 in Oxford, England) Link to comment
Member alf… Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 "Typography? Aaah, lots of fun--no money!" -- unknown passanger on a train from Gatwick Airport to London, England, after asking me what I do for a living. I was on my way to Type90 A.Typ.I conference in Oxford. Link to comment
Member hra… Posted October 23, 2005 Share Posted October 23, 2005 David, spooky: although I think I'd never seen that exact quote before, I actually read alphabet for elephant! Only your qualification made me go back and see elephant. I guess being very familiar with Goudy's strong* affection for the Latin alphabet, the power of suggestion skewed the bouma to an extent I don't think I've ever experienced before. Wow. * To me, overly so. hhp Link to comment
Member Mig… Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Somewhere around now my brain explodes, leaving a real mess on the dining room table where I do most of the work on my laptop.Thomas Phinney Link to comment
Member Mig… Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 I mean, ωhat the fυck?John Hudson Link to comment
Member tim… Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 "The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring." -- Warren Chappell Link to comment
Member rob… Posted November 1, 2005 Share Posted November 1, 2005 This one has always stuck with me: "To be married to a wife who can set type is happiness indeed." ~ Walter Tracy, Letters of Credit I think this would be a great quote for the typographer matchmaking service I plan on starting :) Link to comment
Member Rob… Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 And I'm grateful that Will Burtin imported Helvetica to North America in 1958, just a year after Max Miedinger developed it in Zurich. What a super font. Where would we be without it? Link to comment
Member Rob… Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 And I'm grateful that Will Burtin imported Helvetica to North America in 1958, just a year after Max Miedinger developed it in Zurich. What a super font. Where would we be without it? Link to comment
Member fon… Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 "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." - F. Goudy Link to comment
Member fon… Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Originally I thought this was quotes from famous Type Designers, and I'm not sure this is a famous quote, but I kind of like it. I couldn't bring myself to actually insert one for effect though. Font is Cheapskate by Pat Broderick. Quote is by Susanna Sturgis Link to comment
Member v-s… Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 I saw one of Gill's grumpy quotes in here, and figured that I'd add another from An Essay On Typography. [Writing] is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women. I'm counting down the days until I turn into a didact! Link to comment
Member hra… Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 One of my favorite news items of the new millennium:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/3103421.stm hhp Link to comment
Member v-s… Posted April 9, 2006 Share Posted April 9, 2006 Nice link hrant, I bet that would have made Gill all sorts of happy! Link to comment
Member and… Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 In anticipation of TypeCon2006: "Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately." — Erik Spiekermann, TypeCon2005 "Slikify it" — Erik Spiekermann, TypeCon2005, in reference to the redigitizing of the FF Bau font "We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking." — Neville Brody, TypeCon2005 "Its focus wasn't on the written word but how the word was written". — Neville Brody, TypeCon2005, in reference to Fuse Magazine Link to comment
Member pim… Posted July 4, 2006 Share Posted July 4, 2006 "The Ardent Hymn that Unites Peoples" — Pablo Neruda, Ode to Typography not a designer, but quite typelover to put on. Link to comment
Member acr… Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 "One of the many unforseen consequences of typography, the rise of nationalism is maybe the best known" Marshall McLuhan (but I can't find the source. I could be misquoting slightly) Link to comment
Member Ren… Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 “Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar.” Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Link to comment
Member Si_… Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Marshall McLuhan, what font did he design again? Cheers, Si Link to comment
Member hra… Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 Wasn't it WTC Our Bodoni or something? hhp Link to comment
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