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Typography Quotes by 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.
- Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
- Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the…
- In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read,…
- In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of…
- Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless…
- Typography exists to honor content.
- In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like…
- A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add…
- Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
More Typography Quotes
- Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano
- The book, that stubbornly unelectric artifact of pure typography, possesses resources conducive to the flourishing of the soul. A thoughtful reading of… — Douglas Groothuis
- The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring. — Raymond Chandler
- Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of… — Claude Bernard
- Typography is what language looks like. — Ellen Lupton
- If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying... — Michael Bierut
- I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible. — Erik Spiekermann
- Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable… — Herbert Bayer