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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
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.
I don't think that type should be expressive at all. I can write the word 'dog' with any typeface and it doesn't have to look like a dog. But there are people that [think that] when they write 'dog' it should bark.
I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".
I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.
The better people communicate, the greater will be the need for better typography-expressive typography.
What are letters?"
"Kinda like mediaglyphics except they're all black, and they're tiny, they don't move, they're old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use 'em to make short words for long words.
Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.
Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.
Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.
Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.
I need an irony punctuation mark for the clueless.
In doubtful matters boldness is everything.
Type and typography - what you do and how you do it - are both science and art.
Writing's in the nouns.
I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.
Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.
It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.
Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
Perfect typography is more a science than an art.
Punctuation, is? fun!
I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
Fate's book, but my italics.
Typography is what communication looks like.
There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.
I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
She "loved me" in quotations She kissed me in bold I TRIED TO KEEP HER in all caps She left with an ellipsis . . .
And another thing: because she and my father were very ideological people, always doing things from the body of principle and dogma of the Communist Party, there was a time when I thought that italic writing was Communist. It's not.
I don't care what you people say...we are not using a font that does not have fucking serifs." - Rook Myfanwy Thomas
But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me
precisely.
Write as if you are dying.
Punctuation lets your writing breathe...
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,
I cross out words so you will see them more; the fact that they are obscured makes you want to read them.
Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters.
[I wrote] '...letters designed to hide behind.
Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
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.
They were curved together like quotation marks with no words in between.
Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.
I don't know how to type so I handwrite everything.
Eats Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss.
It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
you know those self-help books that give you permission to love yourself? This one gives you permission to love punctuation.
If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying ...
Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.
I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.
Just write what YOU want to write; how YOU want to write it!
I do not think of type as something that should be readable. It should be beautiful.
The whole purport of literature ... is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
The censure of frequent and long parentheses has led writers into the preposterous expedient of leaving out the marks by which they are indicated. It is no cure to a lame man to take away his crutches.
Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.
The Text is not a definitive object.
Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages.
For four days straights, I sit at my typewriter in my bedroom. Twenty of my typed pages, full of slashes and red-circled edits, become thirty-one in thick Strathmore white.
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
If I'm going to lose it, I want to be broken in right." The pen fell from Trenton's mouth to the floor, and he bent down to pick it up. "Uh . . . any, uh . . . any special font?
I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties.
Write like no one is reading.
One of the things about writing that inspires
and impresses me, is the music words can make. And, like music, the spaces between the notes can mean as much as the notes themselves.
The Jesus Horse
Punctuation is to words as cartilage is to bone, permitting articulation and bearing stress.
you see, the thing is, I just don't know
how to write anything that doesn't
start with a lump in my throat.
And I really don't know how to write anything
that doesn't end with your hands on my neck.
At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.
Ernest Hemingway would have died rather than have syntax. Or semicolons. I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after "semicolons," and another one after "now." And
But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-'
'Are all very well for common people.
Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.
Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
I stray away from formulaic, the formatted.
That's not writing, that's typing.
They writes some bits o' their letters in them wee codies. That's a terrible thing tae do to a reader. It's hard enough readin' the normal words, wi'oot somebody jumblin' them all up.
Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language.
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.
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.
Write visually or die!
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.
I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography - bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing - that it makes me sour on my writing.
Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming.
For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print.
And highlighted with bold streaks
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car - like a Ford - or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me.
Count on big lines to express your ideas.
STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE
Punctuation is over rated a fly on the page of the book can change it all to hell.
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?
Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.Write-- Amity Gaige
The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.
See what is invisible and you will see what to write
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice.
[Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]
is only one thing more mortifying than having an exclamation mark removed by an editor: an exclamation mark added in.
The material of typography is the black, and it is the designer's task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge ...