"Typography exists to honor content." — Robert Bringhurst
"Typography exists to honor content."
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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 a world rife with unsolicited messages, typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet…
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More Content Quotes
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one of 1,935 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
— Hannah Arendt
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A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought…
— Frank Abagnale
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A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they…
— Dave Attell
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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Be content to seem what you really are.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
— Lauren Bacall
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content.
— Kevin Bacon
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When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
— Ansel Adams
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There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being…
— Drew Barrymore
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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