typography

occupation / innovator as

typographer

graphic designer

nationality

British

is a minor technicality of civilized life.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

is an art that moves at the pace of its most conservative reader; thus, a new font's success relies on it being so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

Stanley Morison

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