There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline. When you realise that ugly typo…

- Beatrice Warde

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

- Beatrice Warde

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

- Beatrice Warde

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

- Beatrice Warde

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

- Beatrice Warde

Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discours…

- Beatrice Warde