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.
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, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy -…
- Robert Bringhurst
Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the mythworld, eq… - Robert Bringhurst
Many intellectual heroes in the European tradition seem to find the great outdoors a chilling prospect - and its literary analogue, the mythworld, eq…
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choi… - Robert Bringhurst
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choi…
Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast… - Robert Bringhurst
Drop a word in the ocean of meaning and concentric ripples form. To define a single word means to try to catch those ripples. No one’s hands are fast…
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight o… - Robert Bringhurst
Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight o…
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetr… - Robert Bringhurst
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetr…
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentence… - Robert Bringhurst
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentence…
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form. - Robert Bringhurst
Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and ther… - Robert Bringhurst
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and ther…
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