"In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography……" — Robert Bringhurst
"In a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn. Typography with anything to say therefore aspires to a kind of statuesque transparency. It's other traditional goal is durability: not immunity to change, but a clear superiority to fashion. Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time."
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Robert Bringhurst
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25 Quotes by Robert Bringhurst
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Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for…
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Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.
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Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have…
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Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft…
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If you divide the world into them and us, and history into ours and theirs, or if you think of…
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When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak…
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Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly.
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When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its…
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Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are…
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Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try…
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In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra…
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