Language Quote by Neville Brody

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

— Stanley Morison

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

— Robert Bringhurst

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 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 can help your reader devote less attention to the mechanics of reading and more attention to your message. Conversely, bad typography can…

— Matthew Butterick

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 exists to honor content.

— Robert Bringhurst

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

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

— Beatrice Warde

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

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

— Wolfgang Weingart