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> [Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/typography-at-its-best-is-a-visual-form-of-language-linking/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

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## Other authors on Best design

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## More by Robert Bringhurst

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/popularity-isn-t-just-something-that-happens-you-have-to-give/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [“Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/logograms-pose-a-more-difficult-question-an-increasing-number-of/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/how-much-money-you-get-depends-on-lots-of-extraneous-things-it/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/anxiety-projection-can-and-does-occur-in-myth-in-music-in-fiction-and/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [To design things means to interfere with things: to think of how they might be and to alter how they are. Design is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/to-design-things-means-to-interfere-with-things-to-think-of-how-they/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [By all means break the rules.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/by-all-means-break-the-rules/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/poetry-i-m-often-told-is-something-made-of-words-i-think-it-really/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight or obtuseness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/typography-is-to-literature-as-musical-performance-is-to-composition/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/by-all-means-break-the-rules-and-break-them-beautifully-deliberately/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the mythworld, equally…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/many-intellectual-heroes-in-the-european-tradition-seem-to-find-the/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [Typography exists to honor content.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/typography-exists-to-honor-content/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/nature-or-the-world-or-reality-is-what-mythology-is-all-about/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/essay-on-adam-there-are-five-possibilities-one-adam-fell-two-he-was/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/wings-are-a-constraint-that-makes-it-possible-to-fly/)

[Robert Bringhurst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-bringhurst/)

> [In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-bringhurst/in-a-world-rife-with-unsolicited-messages-typography-must-often-draw/)

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