Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Stanley Morison
Born: May 6, 1889
Died: October 11, 1967 (aged 78)
Bio: Stanley Morison was an influential British typographer, printing executive and historian of printing.
Known for:
- A Tally of Types
- First Principles of Typography (1936)
- Letter forms, typographic and scriptorial
- Four centuries of fine printing (1949)
- John Bell, 1745-1831 (1930)