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Simon Garfield
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January 01, 1960
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“These days, digitization enables us to view the copies [of the Gutenberg Bible] online without the need for a trip to the Euston Road, although to do so would be to deny oneself one of the great pleasures in life. The first book ever printed in Europe - heavy, luxurious, pungent and creaky - does not read particularly well on an iPhone.”
― Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
― Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
“One thing was for sure: no one wanted a repeat of Christopher Barker’s Bible of 1631, which omitted the negative from the seventh commandment so that it read, ‘Thou shalt commit adultery.”
― Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
― Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
“...the book typographer's job was building a window between the reader inside a room and that landscape which is the author's words. He may put up a stained glass window of marvelous beauty, but a failure as a window; that is he may use some rich superb type like text gothic that is something to be look at, not through.”
― Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
― Simon Garfield, Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
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