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“[Typefaces are] the clothes that words wear” is an oft-quoted line, usually attributed to Beatrice Warde. I think I found the first use: The Monotype Recorder, vol. 32, no. 1, 1933, as her pseudonym, Paul Beaujon.
It’s at the end of “On the Choice of Type Faces”, which offers other analogies, such as type as voice. (BTW, I enjoy how the essay is set in progressively smaller fonts. Hi, Irma Boom!) PDF: https://metaltype.co.uk/wpress/library/monotype-recorder/
[Orig. tweeted 3/29/2022]
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"Crystal Clear" by #LoraineFurter
“The printing trade is barred to #women, on the craftsman level”, crackles the voice of #BeatriceWarde in a radio interview recorded in Australia in 1959, “and that’s been true for many centuries.”
https://depatriarchisedesign.com/2020/02/02/crystal-clear-by-loraine-furter/
#typography #feminism