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The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as typography)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,106 ratings — published 1992
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,686 ratings — published 2004
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as typography)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,469 ratings — published 2010
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as typography)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,224 ratings — published 1993
Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as typography)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,023 ratings — published 1971
The Anatomy of Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as typography)
avg rating 4.17 — 414 ratings — published 2012
The New Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,098 ratings — published 1928
Detail in Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.33 — 628 ratings — published 2005
An Essay on Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as typography)
avg rating 3.54 — 657 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 — 630 ratings — published 2002
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as typography)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,244 ratings — published 2013
Typographie: A Manual on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as typography)
avg rating 4.36 — 632 ratings — published 1981
Type Matters! (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 39 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 439 ratings — published 2012
Typography Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as typography)
avg rating 4.28 — 723 ratings — published 2011
Designing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as typography)
avg rating 4.35 — 372 ratings — published 2006
On Web Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as typography)
avg rating 4.14 — 475 ratings — published 2014
Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as typography)
avg rating 4.11 — 403 ratings — published 1993
Anatomy of a Typeface (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as typography)
avg rating 3.99 — 144 ratings — published 1990
Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as typography)
avg rating 3.89 — 220 ratings — published 2014
Modern Typography: an essay in critical history (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as typography)
avg rating 4.08 — 90 ratings — published 1996
A Type Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as typography)
avg rating 4.20 — 397 ratings — published 2002
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles (Volume 1, 1628-1900)
by (shelved 26 times as typography)
avg rating 4.37 — 336 ratings — published 2009
Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as typography)
avg rating 4.46 — 98 ratings — published 1997
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as typography)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,389 ratings — published 1996
Typographic Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 193 ratings — published 2007
Why Fonts Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 3.88 — 496 ratings — published 2016
Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 4.32 — 299 ratings — published 2011
The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 4.28 — 302 ratings — published 1975
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,121 ratings — published 2004
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as typography)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,376 ratings — published 2007
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles (Volume 2, 1901-1938)
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.46 — 97 ratings — published
Better Web Typography for a Better Web
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.36 — 175 ratings — published
The Stroke: Theory of Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.10 — 175 ratings — published 2006
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 4.56 — 70 ratings — published
In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.54 — 870 ratings — published 2015
Letter Fountain: On Printing Types (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.52 — 71 ratings — published 2009
Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 3.90 — 140 ratings — published 2009
While You're Reading (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 3.88 — 136 ratings — published 1997
Type: The Secret History of Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.02 — 179 ratings — published 2004
Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.55 — 51 ratings — published 2000
Type and Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as typography)
avg rating 3.94 — 163 ratings — published 2002
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 — 283 ratings — published 2004
The Fundamentals of Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as typography)
avg rating 4.11 — 154 ratings — published 2006
Flexible Typesetting (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as typography)
avg rating 4.33 — 49 ratings — published
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as typography)
avg rating 3.72 — 219,079 ratings — published 2012
Butterick's Practical Typography (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.38 — 231 ratings — published 2013
Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.40 — 68 ratings — published 2000
Pioneers of Modern Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 3.93 — 60 ratings — published 1983
“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 left entirely in the vernacular lower case. But type is visible speech, in which gods and men, saints and sinners, poets and business executives are treated fundamentally alike . Typographers, in keeping with the virtue of their trade, honor the stewardship of texts and implicitly oppose private ownership of words.”
― The Elements of Typographic Style
― The Elements of Typographic Style
“Anatomy of Typos (Sonnet)
It took me a 100 books to realize this,
typos are not a stain upon literature,
typos are ornament of literature,
sweet reminders of human endeavor.
It's great to have literature without typos,
like it's great to have a life without regrets.
But in actuality, only the dead have no regrets,
only the uncreative make no typographical mistakes.
There are typos that are grievous, hence,
need correcting, but most typos are harmless.
Repulsed by typos means repulsed by literature,
repulsed by regrets means repulsed by existence.
Typos are the ornament of literature,
regrets are the ornament of life.
To make peace with regrets is the beginning of life,
to make peace with typos is to empower literary light.”
― The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
It took me a 100 books to realize this,
typos are not a stain upon literature,
typos are ornament of literature,
sweet reminders of human endeavor.
It's great to have literature without typos,
like it's great to have a life without regrets.
But in actuality, only the dead have no regrets,
only the uncreative make no typographical mistakes.
There are typos that are grievous, hence,
need correcting, but most typos are harmless.
Repulsed by typos means repulsed by literature,
repulsed by regrets means repulsed by existence.
Typos are the ornament of literature,
regrets are the ornament of life.
To make peace with regrets is the beginning of life,
to make peace with typos is to empower literary light.”
― The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
