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
Typographie: A Manual on Design
The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
Type Matters!
Typography Sketchbooks
Designing Type
Graphic Icons by John   CliffordThoughts on Design by Paul RandAbout Two Squares and More About Two Squares by El LissitzkyThe Design of Dissent by Milton GlaserGeorge Lois by George Lois
Graphic Design History
61 books — 13 voters
Art Chantry Speaks by Art ChantryGraphic Design Visionaries by Caroline  RobertsGraphic Design by Jennifer InstonGraphic Design by Jennifer InstonLogo Decode by Various
Graphic Design New Books
12 books — 2 voters

Thinking with Type by Ellen LuptonArt Chantry Speaks by Art ChantryO Mecotipo - Método de Ensino de Desenho Coletivo de Caracter... by BuggyThe ABC of Custom Lettering by Ivan CastroLogo-a-gogo by Rian Hughes
Type Design
6 books — 2 voters
ROY G. BIV by Jude StewartColor Design Workbook by Noreen MoriokaThe Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin P. WilliamsThe Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
Design for Non-Designers
4 books — 1 voter

Under the Influence by Noelle CrooksAverage at Best by Astrid JorgensenThe F**k It! List by Melanie CantorWhat a Way to Go by Bella MackieAmbition Monster by Jennifer Romolini
Green Background, Pink Text
12 books — 1 voter
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

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

Robert Bringhurst
Typography must often draw attention to itself before it will be read. Yet in order to be read, it must relinquish the attention it has drawn.
Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

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