Quote from Eric Gill
POSTED UNDER: Quotations, Typography | No Comments »“A book is primarily a thing to be read, and the merely neat appearance of a page of type of which all the lines are equal in length is a thing of no very great value in itself; it partakes too much of the ideas of those who regard books as things to be looked at rather than read.”
Great quote from a master of typography. The invisibility of the typographer is especially true in book design. Typesetting books is much more about taking away distractions than adding meaning by design.