Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Stanley Morison

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British designer Stanley Morison.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Stanley Arthur Morison was an influential British typographer, printing executive and historian of printing. Largely self-educated, he promoted higher standards in printing and an awareness of the best printing and typefaces of the past.

British - Designer | May 6, 1889 - October 11, 1967

Source: Wikipedia

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

Stanley Morison

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

Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.

Stanley Morison

Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity.

Stanley Morison

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Stanley Morison

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