Font Quotes

“(found in Just My Type by Simon Garfield p. 19)
If you don't get your type warm it will be no use at all for setting down warm human ideas ... By jickity, I'd like to make a type that fitted 1935 all right enough, but I'd like to make it warm - so full of blood and personality that it would jump at you.”
― William Addison Dwiggins

“It's not a remarkable note except for one thing. The typeface Tony used to print it is the exact typeface Kubrick used for the posters and title sequences of 'Eyes Wide Shut' and '2001'.
'It's Futura Extra Bold,' explains Tony. 'It was Stanley's favorite typeface. It's sans serif. He liked Helvetica and Univers too. Clean and elegant.'
'Is this the kind of thing you and Kubrick used to talk about?' I asked.
'God, yes,' says Tony. 'Sometimes late into the night. I was always trying to persuade him to turn away from them. But he was wedded to his sans serifs.”
― Jon Ronson, Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries

“People with Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) are known to put their computer equipment several feet away from them with a large monitor on a big font and they use a wired USB keyboard and mouse to control it.”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“Helvetica is good for typographers who do not know what to say.”
― Thomas Bohm

“Writing is a form of art. Do not use New Times Roman or Arial because it's boring and hackneyed.”
― Natalya Vorobyova

“Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“However, [Edmund G. Gress] wrote, " we must not simplify to such an extent that life and movement are gone. That is where those persons go wrong who claim that type was made to read, and nothing else matters but the setting up of a paragraph in a legible type so that it can be easily read. We do not read everything that appears in print, but do read that which appears interesting.”
― Steven Heller, Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design

“Putting serious messages in Comic Sans is like dropping bad news and then saying LOL afterwards, it does not compute nor does it make sense.”
― Luvvie Ajayi, I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

“Like the address, the note was printed in Comic Sans, which seemed like a slight in itself.”
― Kevin Wignall, Those Who Disappeared

“Adjustments to colors and fonts primarily benefit learners with vision impairments, however there is also a great benefit for learners with other cognitive limitations. High contrast between text and background is crucial for learners with low vision or color blindness.”
― Britne Jenke, Making Online Learning Accessible: A Making Work Accessible Handbook

“For me, there shall be one font, and one font there shall be for me, and that font is Arial. Do not try to default my document or spreadsheet to a different font, for I will notice, and I will change it back to Arial. Send me anything else, and I will change it to Arial as well. Be it for real science or fiction, as the letters and numbers rise upon my page, we will have unity within and amoung all files I produce. Never shall I yield, I stand upon my words!”
― Aegelis