Branches Quote by Robert Bringhurst

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

— 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

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

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

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

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

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

— Stanley Morison

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

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

— Wolfgang Weingart

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 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