Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
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)






