Books Quote by 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

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

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

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

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

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.

— Helmut Schmid

“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

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

If typography is calling attention to itself, it's taking that attention away from what the words are saying...

— Michael Bierut

Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and…

— Stanley Morison