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Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

Stanley Morison

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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
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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:
  1. A Tally of Types
  2. First Principles of Typography (1936)
  3. Letter forms, typographic and scriptorial
  4. Four centuries of fine printing (1949)
  5. John Bell, 1745-1831 (1930)

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