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Best wishes to all the fonts in all the texts in all the books that make for a world of unfolding stories.
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Times New Roman is not a font choice so much as the absence of a font choice, like the blackness of deep space is not a color.
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For beauty is God's handwriting ... A nd, thank God for it as a cup of His blessing.
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Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
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I write everything in Courier 12 because I write for publication, not pleasure.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
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first four letters, and used to write them out
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What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?
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The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.
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It's in Latin."
"So? What does it say?"
"I don't read Latin!"
"You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?
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By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.
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Etruscans sometimes wrote boustrophedon style, in which the direction of writing alternates with each line - right-to-left, then left-to-right. Brilliant! The eye doesn't waste time trekking back to the left side of the page after every line.
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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.
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Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.
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The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
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Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.
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Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.
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I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful.
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Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.
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I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable
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Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
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The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.
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The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter,
but something that sits between writing and music
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There is nothing quite so beautiful as the written word -worn as a jewel, adorning the segmented lines of papyrus".
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How do you write zero in Roman numerals?
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Nate took the sheet. It was covered in the neat, curvy handwriting so many women mastered and men almost never did. The top half was the message, recopied in the same Cyrillic that it had been on the wall. Below it was the translation in English.
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Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.
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Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
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There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing
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Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
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Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.
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It was a red Moleskine - made of neither mole nor skin, but nonetheless the preferred journal of my associates who felt the need to journal in non-electronic form.
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Type and typography - what you do and how you do it - are both science and art.
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Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
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We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.
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Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
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The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
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He was creating the first letters of the Slavonic alphabet. He started with rounded letters, but the Slavonic language was so wild that the ink could not hold it, and so he made a second alphabet of barred letters and caged the unruly language in them like a bird.
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You can't imagine what the Russian alphabet looks like. It's no wonder people are illiterate.
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People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.
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At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
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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.
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Calligraphy, a spiritual art that has been forgotten in favor of an emotionless keyboard.
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In black and white you suggest, in color you state.
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They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
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Spanish-language, and audio, and in deluxe hardcover editions featuring elegant silver-embossed jackets
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Everybody wants to design a bloody typeface.
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Typography is the use of type to advocate, communicate, celebrate, edu- cate, elaborate, illuminate, and disseminate. Along the way, the words and pages become art.
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It is noteworthy, the researcher further argued, that the inscription on the sword was engraved in the Romanian language, and, consequently, we see that Latin was actually Romanian, and not the invented language that for many centuries has passed for ancient Latin.
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Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
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There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
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Like black, do you? (Cassandra)
It serves its purpose. It's hard to look intimidating in pastels. (Wulf)
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When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.
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I must confess the language of symbols is to me
A Babylonish dialect
Which learned chemists much affect;
It is a party-coloured dress
Of patch'd and piebald languages:
'T is English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin.
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The Text is not a definitive object.
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or just inventing a new letter (as our medieval ancestors did when they created the new letters j, u, and w).
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A really first-class company uses really fine stationery.
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Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
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Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates.
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It's some kind of Elvish.I can't read it.
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The soft throb and glow roused in my breast by the gilt letters of four or five different languages winking at me from scores of handsomely tooled bindings - the sight of so much knowledge so beautifully presented - swiftly flamed out.
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The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.
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Typography can be as exciting as illustration and photography.
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Copy, art, and typography should be seen as a living entity; each element integrally related, in harmony with the whole, and essential to the execution of an idea.
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Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.
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Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.
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If that shit is a Hawaiian print, I'm going to kill you.
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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.
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The Armenian alphabet is shredded lace
squiggly, feathery and mysterious. More elongated than Arabic, more elegant than Cyrillic.
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Available in HTML and CSS. In the absence of a font being found, the web browser will use its default font, which may be a user defined one. Depending on the web browser, a user can in fact override the font defined by the code writer. This may be for personal taste reasons, but may also
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You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
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Maktub" (It is written.)
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Emacs is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful.
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At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
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You don't ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
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My favorite alphabet is 'R'. It has got: Revenge, Racism, Reincarnation, Renaissance, Revival and Resurgence.
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Any fifth language that you use should be equally used as just another bit of theater language, so that if you have a strong text, then the light should be as strongly part of that text as, for example, the sound it should be or whatever it is that you see.
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My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.
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When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.
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Yet the ink on the page was ancient, faded. (...) Fresh iron-gall ink was as black as Beelzebub's beards.
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If you love it, you don't know much about typography. And if you hate it, you really don't know much about typography either and you should get another hobby.
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How had it come about that these particular designs were chosen as our letters? Who decreed what sound would accompany each shape? And how was it decided the manner they would come together to form a word?
'Why is this so?' I demanded to know.
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And the writing is still : to you, with you, about you, because of you and for you.
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More advice: if your message is to be printed, use high-quality paper to maximize the contrast between characters and their background. If you use color, you are more likely to be believed if your text is printed in bright blue or red than in middling shades of green, yellow, or pale blue.
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I write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted.
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Proper writing ink comes in a bottle, can be swirled like brandy in a glass, and smells like apple blossom after rain.
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In India ink your writing is lovely, but not as lovely as your hand - it is your hand - I know your hand - it fits so well in mine ...
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A staccato script of letters and digits beamed from an alternate world. Then they ceased communicating altogether. and began to liase in dreams and nightmares.
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For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
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After a while, the letter became soft and moist. When I glanced up I could see, although
initially indistinctly, soft downy blonde hair with a large, gold, buckle intermingled there. This was
seeing with all my senses.
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Forget ideas, Mr. Author.
What kind of pen do you use?
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In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,
a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.
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When typography is on point, words become images.
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The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of the printed text orients one to a world of order, meaning, and the possibility of knowing truth.
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Elizabethans were as free with their handwriting as they were with their spelling. Handbooks of handwriting suggested up to twenty different - often very different - ways of shaping particular letters.
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Chapter 5.2: Generic Fonts - Sans -Serif Setting font properties will be among the most common uses of style sheets. Unfortunately, there exists no well-defined and universally accepted taxonomy for
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With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years.
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The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.