"In the nineteenth century, which was a dark……" — Robert Bringhurst
"In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit."
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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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Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft…
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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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