Crafts Quote by Robert Bringhurst

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

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

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

— Robert Bringhurst

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology.

— Marshall McLuhan

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

— Stanley Morison

We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both…

— Michael Bierut

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

— Wolfgang Weingart

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 a hidden tool of manipulation within society. All schools should be teaching typography; we should be fundamentally aware of how typographic language…

— Neville Brody

“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 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

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