Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote,… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Popularity isn't just something that happens. You have to give something in exchange for it, and that's the dangerous part of the process. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
Anxiety projection can and does occur - in myth, in music, in fiction, and in the doctor's office too. That doesn't make it the… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the mythworld, equally… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge,… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share
