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Type production has gone mad, with its senseless outpouring of new types... only in degenerate times can personality (opposed to the nameless masses) become the aim of human development.
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The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.
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We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and thereby rendering it useless.
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The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.
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The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more difficult to read than serifed roman type, whose serifs were never meant to be ornamental.
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Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.
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In themselves, experiments are not art. Infinite amounts of energy are wasted because everybody feels he has to make his own start, his own beginning, instead of getting to know what has already been done. It is doubtful that anyone who doesn't want to...
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Jan Tschichold
Born:
April 2, 1902
Died:
August 11, 1974
(aged 72)
Bio:
Jan Tschichold was a typographer, book designer, teacher and writer.
Known for:
The New Typography
The form of the book
Die neue Typographie
Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering
Meisterbuch der Schrift (1952)
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