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
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type
Typographie: A Manual on Design
Type Matters!
Typography Sketchbooks
Designing Type
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiS. by J.J. AbramsLiberators by Alex LetnerTHE YOGA WITH NO PANTS by Alex LetnerThe Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
Illuminated Novels
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Art Chantry Speaks by Art ChantryGraphic Design Visionaries by Caroline  RobertsPositioning for Advantage by Kimberly A. WhitlerGraphic Design by Jennifer InstonGraphic Design by Jennifer Inston
Graphic Design New Books
13 books — 3 voters

Homebodies by Tembe Denton-HurstBlack Swans by Eve BabitzTrick Mirror by Jia TolentinoGlittering a Turd by Kris HallengaHey You Assholes by Kyle Seibel
Serif Text-Based Covers
156 books — 4 voters
Average at Best by Astrid JorgensenAmbition Monster by Jennifer RomoliniBlack Swans by Eve BabitzUnder the Influence by Noelle CrooksThe F**k It! List by Melanie Cantor
Green Background, Pink Text
39 books — 4 voters


Robert Bringhurst
“ Logograms pose a more difficult question. An increasing number of persons and institutions, from archy and mehitabel to PostScript and TrueType, come to the typographer in search of special treatment.In earlier days it was kings and deities whose agents demanded that their names be written in a larger size or set in a specially ornate typeface; not it is business firms and mass-market products demanding an extra helping of capitals, or a proprietary face, and poets pleading, by contrast, to be l ...more ”
― Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

Abhijit Naskar
“ Typos are not a stain upon literature, typos are ornament of literature. ”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

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