“It has become apparent to me that doing calligraphy makes you a better type designer, and doing type design makes you a better calligrapher.”
Seb Lester, I Love Typography
“It has become apparent to me that doing calligraphy makes you a better type designer, and doing type design makes you a better calligrapher.”
Seb Lester, I Love Typography
“Why is it that when describing typography, the Latins think of food, whilst the Anglo-Saxons think of authority?”
Erik Spiekermann, on the arbitrary choice of typographic terms in different languages. Rhyme & Reason: A Typographic Novel, p. 103.