Frederic Goudy Quotes

• Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

  Frederic Goudy

  Achievement, Design, Mind

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• When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.

  Frederic Goudy

  Running, Perfect, Design

  Frederic William Goudy (1940). “Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• Someday I'll design a typeface without a K in it, and then let's see the bastards misspell my name.

  Frederic Goudy

  Names, Design, Typography

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• All the old fellows stole our best ideas.

  Frederic Goudy

  Ideas, Design, Typography

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• Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

  Frederic Goudy

  Men, Sheep, Design

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• Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

  Frederic Goudy

  Sheep, Design, Stealing

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