A Quote by Bruno Maag

The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.

Bruno Maag

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Bruno Maag
Swiss - Designer
Born: 1962

If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.

Bruno Maag

There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital font. I picked up a copy of the 'Dandy' the other week, and I was amazed to see that it was completely lettered in my hand-lettering font. It was quite a thrill, really, having been a 'Dandy' reader years and years ago.

Dave Gibbons

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

Steve Jobs

The problem with these interviews is that there's no sarcastic font.

Zach Galifianakis

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War.

Paula Scher

There is a great need for a sarcasm font.

Darynda Jones

Looking at font serifs is fun.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Carl Sandburg

The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads.

Kate Clinton

Substance over style is the rule for all resumes. Any special effects will dilute the gravitas and stature of the impression. You want people to concentrate on your accomplishments and your successes, not the curlicues of a font or unusual shades or contrast of colors.

Debbie Millman

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Carolina Herrera

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

Saint Augustine

Instead of being the 'font of all knowledge,' teachers are required to be effective facilitators of student learning both within and outside the classroom at any time.

Susan Mann

With writing a song, I've always felt, right from the start, like I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel. I don't ever feel there's a font of ideas to fall back on.