Quotes from Jan Tschichold


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Typography, even when poorly executed, can never be taken for granted; not is it ever accidental. Indeed, beautifully typeset pages are always the result of long experience.

Good typography has a simple structure.

The argument about symmetry and asymmetry is futile. They each have their own areas and special possibilities.

I stumbled on The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design at my school library. A very nice book.

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