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

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

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

Typography is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight o…

- 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…

- Robert Bringhurst

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

- 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

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

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