Design Quote by Wolfgang Weingart

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 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 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 a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

— Neville Brody

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

— Robert Bringhurst

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 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

Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

— Robert Bringhurst

Typography is what language looks like.

— Ellen Lupton

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

— Robert Bringhurst

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

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