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How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

It’s too difficult to convey tone in electronic communication. And we can solve this my friends. All we need is some new fonts. ‘Great party Arj. Best party ever.’ What a jerk! How do you know he wasn’t being sincere, Arj? Because he wrote it in Sarcastica! If he had enjoyed himself, he would have used Good Times Roman.

Nowhere was the airport’s charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?

I can’t go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu.

In the afterlife you don’t have to worry about looking for work.

Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization ?

For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule….use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

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.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It’s like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.

Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.[Fr., Coups de fourches ni d’etriveres,Ne lui font changer de manieres.]

The Canon AE1 – a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn’t do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.

Combien de gens se font abstraits pour para?tre profonds! La plupart des termes abstraits sont des ombres qui cachent des vides. How many people become abstract in order to appear profound! Most abstract terms are shadows that conceal a void.

The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone.[Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l’amour se font sentir par l’embarras ou l’on est de se trouver seuls.]

Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.

The Administration’s policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.

Instead of being the ‘font of all knowledge,’ teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

For me, the eye and the word go together. Even when I was working in word documents, I was always obsessed with fonts, size, margins – the look of words on a page. The way something looks or sounds is also what it means.

As the saying goes, type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

I was never really satisfied with writing only text or with the way my texts looked when they were published. Most online journals have a pretty lame sense of typography – bad font, counter-intuitive margins and line spacing – that it makes me sour on my writing.

Clearly, when we baptize, our eyes should gaze beyond the baptismal font to the holy temple. The great garner into which the sheaves should be gathered is the holy temple.

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

I hate videos. I’m meticulous on everything from cover art, fonts, productions, mixing. But when it comes to videos, I just feel so defeated.

The problem with these interviews is that there’s no sarcastic font.