Quotes by Type Designer of the Authors - Page 1

All typefaces are historical.
Jonathan Hoefler / Type Designer
Design
Historical
Typography
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Make sure your vision is God's vision.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Leadership
Christian
Vision
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All the old fellows stole our best ideas.
Frederic Goudy / Type Designer
Design
Ideas
Typography
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Make sure you are passionate about the vision.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Leadership
Christian
Vision
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Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
Stanley Morison / Type Designer
Civilized
Minors
Typography
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Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.
Frederic Goudy / Type Designer
Design
Men
Sheep
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If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Leadership
Christian
Vision
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Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.
Frederic Goudy / Type Designer
Design
Sheep
Stealing
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The last thing I want to do is pastor a church Jesus ain't at.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Jesus
Leadership
Christian
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There’s a difference between making an imitation and selling it.
Jonathan Hoefler / Type Designer
Differences
Imitation
Selling
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And Helvetica maybe says everything, and that's perhaps part of its appeal.
Jonathan Hoefler / Type Designer
Appeals
Helvetica
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I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Art
Chance
Museums
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Cast first to your church those visions you absolutely know are the Lord's.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Leadership
Christian
Vision
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Let's be pastors who cast vision that are worth people giving their life for.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Leadership
Christian
People
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Many of us struggle with ideas that come to our head from our self-identification.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Ideas
Self
Struggle
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There's all kind of vision in this Book. Just open it up and your people will follow.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Leadership
Book
Christian
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Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
Frederic Goudy / Type Designer
Design
Achievement
Mind
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As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Design
Beautiful
Groups
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Make sure your vision is biblical. You want to make sure you can defend the vision biblically.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Leadership
Biblical
Christian
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Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.
Frederic Goudy / Type Designer
Design
Names
Typography
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The first thing Jesus tells the church of Ephesus that He loves about them is they have sound doctrine.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Jesus
Leadership
Christian
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I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Curious
Length
Persons
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Step 1 in casting vision is to make sure your people love Jesus more than they love the vision you are casting.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Jesus
Leadership
Christian
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"Good" people are those who don't hold in the thoughts, but find proper outlets like writing, painting, music, etc.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Etc
People
Writing
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When your vision is a biblical vision, the people arguing with it are not arguing with you. They are arguing with God.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Leadership
Biblical
Christian
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I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Running
Age
Imagination
Play
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Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king.
Giambattista Bodoni / Type Designer
Kings
Design
Space
White
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I have always been curious about other people. I wonder what goes on in their minds, whether they are good, or bad and I wonder about their lives.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Goes On
Mind
People
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I don't particularly like the word average because when it comes down to it there is no average in people. Everybody has their own streak of uniqueness within them.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Average
People
Streaks
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The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.
Giambattista Bodoni / Type Designer
Love
Pain
Passion
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Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Opportunity
Pieces
Trying
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Everybody has secrets and some are deeper and darker than others. I think if we peered within the psyche of another we would be all of those things and so very much more.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Secret
Thinking
Would Be
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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.
Stanley Morison / Type Designer
Design
Moving
Successful
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As humans, no matter our level of understanding, we are very complex beings with very complex thoughts. There are ideas that each of us have within our heads that are so different from each other it is mind boggling.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Ideas
Mind
Understanding
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There was never a point in which I was worried about being jealous about what my friends had seen or done. Instead, I felt blessed that I was able to feel what others were all about. I was enlightened by their truth and way about things.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Jealous
Able
Blessed
Done
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When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.
Frederic Goudy / Type Designer
Running
Design
Perfect
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Click-throughs on a video are often much higher than a standard website listing on the front page of Google. If you see a video in the Google results... it stands out a lot more than a regular website listing does, so [it] tends to attract more clicks.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Doe
Google
Marketing
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Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.
Stanley Morison / Type Designer
Art
House
Islands
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Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity.
Stanley Morison / Type Designer
Discipline
Mean
Simplicity
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Our self-identification changes with our environment, but sometimes those dark thoughts permeate within us and there are those who are able to fight off those thoughts and others who don't want to fight them, or have just given in for whatever reason and whether they know the darkness they act upon is wrong, they love the darkness.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Dark
Fighting
Self
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There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.
Matthew Carter / Type Designer
Differences
Mind Blowing
Thinking
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