The Elements of Typographic Style A Book by Robert Bringhurst www.goodreads.com Leave the road when you wishTypography exists to honor contentTypographic styleA state of energetic reposeEvenness of color+10 More The utter nothingness of beingThe Elements of Style typography
Deliberate acts I do not know what one should call the landscape of a long cultivated countryside, or the enchanting pattern of lights which shows at night time in a modern city seen from overhead. Are these not works of art? It is scarcely justifiable to say that these things have taken shape by chance. Each part of them has been made as it is by what seemed a deliberate act, and it need not necessarily be assumed to be a matter of chance that the results of many acts of many men over a considerably period of time should harmonize together aesthetically. David Pye, The Nature and Aesthetics of Design The Timeless Way of BuildingA Pattern Language evolutionurbanism