When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline.
BEATRICE WARDE

Men Simple Wise
Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse – each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.
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Design Different Page People Personality Pronunciation Set
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.
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Clothes Ideas People
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.
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Art Conscious Experiment Flounder Humility Self
When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.
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Able Refuse Something Typography
Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.
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Ideas Talking Voice
There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.
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Art Firsts Typography

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