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Typography Books
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The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as typography)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,039 ratings — published 1992
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 205 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,526 ratings — published 2004
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as typography)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,518 ratings — published 2010
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,207 ratings — published 1993
Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as typography)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,024 ratings — published 1971
The New Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as typography)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,092 ratings — published 1928
Detail in Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.33 — 612 ratings — published 2005
The Anatomy of Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as typography)
avg rating 4.16 — 407 ratings — published 2012
An Essay on Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as typography)
avg rating 3.54 — 641 ratings — published 1931
The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as typography)
avg rating 4.11 — 628 ratings — published 2002
Typographie: A Manual on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as typography)
avg rating 4.37 — 626 ratings — published 1981
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as typography)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,136 ratings — published 2013
Type Matters! (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 38 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 428 ratings — published 2012
Typography Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as typography)
avg rating 4.28 — 725 ratings — published 2011
Designing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as typography)
avg rating 4.35 — 367 ratings — published 2006
On Web Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as typography)
avg rating 4.14 — 470 ratings — published 2014
Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as typography)
avg rating 4.10 — 399 ratings — published 1993
Anatomy of a Typeface (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as typography)
avg rating 4.01 — 142 ratings — published 1990
Modern Typography: an essay in critical history (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as typography)
avg rating 4.07 — 89 ratings — published 1996
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles (Volume 1, 1628-1900)
by (shelved 26 times as typography)
avg rating 4.37 — 338 ratings — published 2009
Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as typography)
avg rating 3.89 — 213 ratings — published 2014
A Type Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 389 ratings — published 2002
Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as typography)
avg rating 4.47 — 98 ratings — published 1997
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,286 ratings — published 1996
Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as typography)
avg rating 4.32 — 298 ratings — published 2011
Typographic Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 192 ratings — published 2007
Why Fonts Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 3.88 — 465 ratings — published 2016
The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 4.29 — 297 ratings — published 1975
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,112 ratings — published 2004
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as typography)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,375 ratings — published 2007
Better Web Typography for a Better Web
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.36 — 174 ratings — published
In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.54 — 863 ratings — published 2015
Letter Fountain: On Printing Types (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.53 — 70 ratings — published 2009
The Stroke: Theory of Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.11 — 167 ratings — published 2006
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles (Volume 2, 1901-1938)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.47 — 97 ratings — published
Type Rules!: The Designer's Guide To Professional Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 3.93 — 123 ratings — published 2001
The Visual History of Type: A visual survey of 320 typefaces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.57 — 67 ratings — published
Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 3.89 — 140 ratings — published 2009
While You're Reading (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 3.87 — 134 ratings — published 1997
Type: The Secret History of Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.02 — 177 ratings — published 2004
Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.56 — 50 ratings — published 2000
Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as typography)
avg rating 4.04 — 51 ratings — published 1987
Typography Workbook: A Real-World Guide to Using Type in Graphic Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as typography)
avg rating 4.00 — 282 ratings — published 2004
Type and Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as typography)
avg rating 3.94 — 163 ratings — published 2002
The Fundamentals of Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as typography)
avg rating 4.11 — 150 ratings — published 2006
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as typography)
avg rating 3.72 — 215,623 ratings — published 2012
Pioneers of Modern Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as typography)
avg rating 3.93 — 60 ratings — published 1983
Flexible Typesetting (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.33 — 49 ratings — published
Butterick's Practical Typography (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.39 — 222 ratings — published 2013
Elegantissima: The Design and Typography of Louise Fili (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,341 ratings — published 2012
“Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters.”
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“Type designers are, at their best, the Stradivarii of literature: not merely makers of salable products, but artists who design and make the instruments that other artists use.”
― The Elements of Typographic Style
― The Elements of Typographic Style
