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
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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
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 Image
Nature, or the world, or reality, is what mythology is all about. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
