Focus on your type. It’s the most important skill a designer can have.
—Frank Chimero
Posts Tagged ‘Typography’
Typography was never strictly buisness for me. It’s a hobby turned into profession. It’s a love affair.
—Panos Vassiliou
It’s the interplay between fonts that gives them energy.
—H&FJ
To me, typography is a crucial element in setting the formalness or informality of a design.
—Doug Bowman
Many typefaces have died of an overdose.
—Massimo Vignelli
Most of the time it is not the typeface but the bad handling of it, or the insensitive choice and inappropriate use of it, that disturbs and inflates its usage.
—Massimo Vignelli
When it comes to type, there is only one criterion: excellence of the typeface and appropriateness of the choice.
—Massimo Vignelli
What makes a printed page sing is its structure first; typeface second.
—Massimo Vignelli
In the last ten years, a dozen imitations of Helvetica have emerged and are confusing the market. None of them, however, are better than the original.
—Massimo Vignelli
San-serif, looked at in detail, is admittedly capable of improvement, but there is no doubt that it is the basic form from which the typeface of the future will grow. Other individual expressive possibilities of type have nothing to do with typography.
—Jan Tschichold