Text Layout Quotes

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

Typography exists to honor content.

My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot.

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.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts with me thinking, "What's a great cover?," or "What's the splash image?," or "What is the title of the issue? How do I see the text?" I think about all of that stuff, and then the story comes out of that imagery.

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .

I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.