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I write those words in steel for anything else not set in metal cannot be trusted.
Type A Ellie liked to know the rules, like knowing what to expect. Flying blind made her nervous. He prepared to make her all kinds of nervous.
You're Times New Roman, but I'm more Comic Sans.
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.
Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.
God, I hate it when people even say there are types, like people come in flavors.
Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types ... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.
Turns out typecasting is a real thing.
Typographical design should perform optically what the speaker creates through voice and gesture of his thoughts.
Por que en las epocas oscuras
se escribe con tinta invisible?
Why in the darkest ages
do they write with invisible ink?
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.
What is your type? No wait. Let me guess. Hard, plastic coated and jammed full of big D batteries.
Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.
coltish-looking,
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?
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Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.
When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn't added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.
The beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.
The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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.
Something made out of words...
I'm not really Type A, but A minus.
Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration
I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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.
first four letters, and used to write them out
I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.
You don't ask a writer what typewriter he uses.
Well, there's the type of person who says there are certain types of people and then tries to be one type or the other. And then there are others who say bananas to the whole concept of types and won't allow themselves to be filed neatly away under some sort of ridiculously limiting category.
I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.Type-- Hunter Hayes
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.
What is sweeter than lettered ease?
Readers may be divided into three classes - the superficial, the ignorant, and the learned, and I have with much felicity fitted my pen to the genius and advantage of each.
A light white, a disgras, an ink spot, a rosy charm.
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.
Genre? What's that?Genre-- June Winton
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Makes of men date, like makes of car.
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.
What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature made you fools.
Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.
Creating a data type
In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.
do a typing and shorthand
version of Amber.
If you write "judgement" you should also write "colour" and "tyre.
How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go?
Typography is two-dimensional architecture, based on experience and imagination, and guided by rules and readability.
Perfect typography is more a science than an art.
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.
Is typecasting really a problem?
For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.
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.
Typography's really white, you know. It's not even black, in a sense. It is the space between the blacks that really makes it. In a sense, it's like music - it's not the notes; it's the space you put between the notes that makes the music.
I'm a regular guy; I like well-defined outlines. I'm old-fashioned, bourgeois.
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.
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
Typographers are designers; designers are my people.
Lettering creates readable art that comes to life, displaying a quirky, whimsical nature.
Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
Colorful tin trays from my grandmother? A friend confided
I don't care what you people say...we are not using a font that does not have fucking serifs." - Rook Myfanwy Thomas
Ah, is this thing that you call tinola a variety of lotus which makes people - er - forgetful?
Makes of men date, like makes of cars...
The strongest feelings I have about printing always return to three simple concepts: the sculptural nature of type, the inevitableness of its arrangement on the page, and the authority of its impression.
Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.
Forget ideas, Mr. Author.
What kind of pen do you use?
Typography is what communication looks like.
There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.
Tinker wrote neatly, though his spelling was not good, Ruth's recipes would never fail for confusion between 'add sugar' and 'seethe', but Jane's writing looked like an intoxicated inky spider had staggered across the page on the way to the bar for another drink. Which it really didn't need.
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.
Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.
wooden X is on theWooden-- E.l. James
The precious ordinary. I
From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.
The hair-color, Streeter decided, of the old men you see sitting on park benches and feeding the pigeons. Call it Just For Losers. #
When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.
What is your type?"
I shrugged. "Non-existent.
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
One of the biggest dangers in Hollywood is becoming typed.
Gray, the colour of forgetting.
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
By the year 2000 every secretary will have a favorite typeface.
I like the sound a typewriter makes.
Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.
Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.
Writing:
It starts at the keyboard,
and it ends at the far corners of the universe.
Paako
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.
Film, I think, is my medium.
They're so retarded they think stereotype means typing with both hands.
Grey's OK on a man,' says Mary-Anne. 'Silver fox and all that.' Ruth notices that Frank doesn't seem to mind this description. She also muses that there isn't a female equivalent to 'silver fox'. 'Grey-haired old bat' doesn't cover it somehow.
Concurring hands divide
flax for damask
that when bleached by Irish weather
has the silvered chamois-leather
water-tightness of a
skin.
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.
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed "Potassium".