Typography


The Elements of Typographic Style
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography
The Anatomy of Type
The New Typography
Detail in Typography
An Essay on Typography
The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type
Typographie: A Manual on Design
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
Type Matters!
Typography Sketchbooks
Designing Type
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsThe Four Books of Architecture by Andrea PalladioGraphic Design by Ellen LuptonNeon Spectacular by Kody ShaferA Pattern Language by Christopher W. Alexander
Design Library
35 books — 4 voters
Just My Type by Simon GarfieldThe Elements of Typographic Style by Robert BringhurstThinking with Type by Ellen LuptonThe Form of the Book by Jan TschicholdGraphic Icons by John   Clifford
Typographic Classics
14 books — 8 voters

Homebodies by Tembe Denton-HurstBeijing Sprawl by Xu ZechenGirlhood by Melissa FebosAgainst White Feminism by Rafia ZakariaOutsiders by Alice   Slater
Repeating Word Covers
65 books — 4 voters

Конструктивизм by Aleksei GanBetween Worlds by Timothy O. BensonConstructivism by Aleksei GanCentral European Avant-Gardes by Timothy O. BensonThe Realistic Manifesto by Naum Gabo
Constructivism Reading List
37 books — 2 voters
Just My Type by Simon GarfieldThe Elements of Typographic Style by Robert BringhurstCounterpunch by Fred SmeijersShady Characters by Keith HoustonDesigning Type by Karen Cheng
Must Reads for Typography Nerds
29 books — 26 voters

Robert Bringhurst
Typography like other arts, from cooking to choreography, involves a balance between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the dependably consistent and the unforeseen. Typographers generally take pleasure in the unpredictable length of the paragraph while accepting the simple and reassuring consistency of the paragraph indent. The prose paragraph and its verse counterpart, the stanza, are basic units of linguistic thought and literary style. The typographer must articulate them enough to make them c ...more
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

Steven Heller
Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages.
Steven Heller

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