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
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
Typographie: A Manual on Design
Type Matters!
Typography Sketchbooks
Designing Type
The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan FletcherThinking with Type by Ellen LuptonThings I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan SagmeisterThoughts on Design by Paul RandGraphic Design Rules by Sean Adams
Graphic Design
159 books — 31 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiS. by J.J. AbramsThe Raw Shark Texts by Steven  HallThe Unfortunates by B.S. JohnsonIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Ergodic Literature
69 books — 84 voters
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran FoerTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Fault in Our Stars by John  GreenThe Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Best Typography on a Book Cover
641 books — 194 voters

Lettering with Purpose by Brittany LuizThe Complete Book of Chalk Lettering by Valerie McKeehanThe Art of Whimsical Lettering by Joanne SharpeModern Calligraphy by Molly Suber ThorpeMastering Modern Calligraphy by Molly Suber Thorpe
Hand Lettering and Calligraphy
42 books — 8 voters
The MASH Up by Laura Marie MeyersThe Hearth Witch's Guide to Spite & Spellwork (Standard Edition) by Kiri CallaghanThe Fox and the Star by Coralie Bickford-SmithThings We Didn't See Coming by Steven AmsterdamEverything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Fonty Book Covers
5 books — 1 voter

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

“ Helvetica is good for typographers who do not know what to say. ”
― Thomas Bohm

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