Robert Bringhurst
Canadian poet and typographerWikipedia
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Sep 30, 2026
Tanner WoodfordGUEST
Yeah, everything is so similar and different.
Tanner WoodfordGUEST
But there's a quote that I read in college by Robert Bringhurst that's always stuck with me, that space and typography is like time and music.
Tanner WoodfordGUEST
When you're looking at typography, and you're trying to sort of space things out, your job is really to make yourself invisible, right? Like you're trying to make it so that you never knew the designer was there.
Tanner WoodfordGUEST
It's just easy to read.
Frances Abrantes BacaGUEST
I'm just like, let's just run through.
Frances Abrantes BacaGUEST
But Debbie liked to insert a little bit of a space before and after, and it was something that she... read a lot about when she was doing her research for the design of books the first book that she wrote she was reading a book called the elements of typographic style which is by robert bringhurst it's like a like a foundational book for book design and book designers and he advocated for spaces and she just thought that that was really interesting and so we had a yeah an hour-long debate about whether or not we needed spaces and neither we didn't win each other over like we stayed firmly in in our own camps but it was just lovely to be able to have that
Kate LeahyHOST
conversation entered out.
Kate LeahyHOST
I worked on this book called La Bouffette with Camille Formant, who has this wine bar in Paris.