Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
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)