Configuration Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

— Robert Bringhurst

Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself…

— Ellen Lupton

Today we are inundated with such an immense flood of printed matter that the value of individual work has depreciated, for our harassed contemporaries…

— Emil Ruder

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

— Jan Tschichold

I've not chosen to learn to read print. I can read simple words but it's so tedious.

— Mike May

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this…

— Emil Ruder

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

— Christian Marclay

Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of…

— Ellen Lupton

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

— Stanley Morison

Most of my thoughts, you couldn't print.

— Jim Rogers