Communicate Quote by Michael Bierut

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

— Robert Bringhurst

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

For me, typography is a triangular relationship between design idea, typographic elements, and printing technique.

— Wolfgang Weingart

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

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy -…

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any…

— Marshall McLuhan

Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the…

— Michael Bierut

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

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

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

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

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

— Robert Bringhurst