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Typography Books
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The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as typography)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,065 ratings — published 1992
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,596 ratings — published 2004
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as typography)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,845 ratings — published 2010
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,221 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 55 times as typography)
avg rating 4.17 — 410 ratings — published 2012
The New Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,094 ratings — published 1928
Detail in Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.33 — 616 ratings — published 2005
An Essay on Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as typography)
avg rating 3.54 — 651 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 — 631 ratings — published 2002
Typographie: A Manual on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as typography)
avg rating 4.37 — 627 ratings — published 1981
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as typography)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,180 ratings — published 2013
Type Matters! (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 38 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 435 ratings — published 2012
Typography Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as typography)
avg rating 4.28 — 724 ratings — published 2011
Designing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as typography)
avg rating 4.35 — 371 ratings — published 2006
On Web Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as typography)
avg rating 4.14 — 472 ratings — published 2014
Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 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
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles (Volume 1, 1628-1900)
by (shelved 27 times as typography)
avg rating 4.37 — 337 ratings — published 2009
Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as typography)
avg rating 3.89 — 218 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 4.19 — 392 ratings — published 2002
Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as typography)
avg rating 4.46 — 98 ratings — published 1997
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as typography)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,341 ratings — published 1996
Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as typography)
avg rating 4.32 — 299 ratings — published 2011
Typographic Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 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 — 478 ratings — published 2016
The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 4.28 — 303 ratings — published 1975
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,114 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 4.47 — 96 ratings — published
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 — 871 ratings — published 2015
The Stroke: Theory of Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.11 — 168 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 4.57 — 68 ratings — published
Letter Fountain: On Printing Types (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.53 — 70 ratings — published 2009
Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 3.90 — 142 ratings — published 2009
While You're Reading (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 3.89 — 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 4.56 — 50 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 — 282 ratings — published 2004
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 — 216,985 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 — 228 ratings — published 2013
Elegantissima: The Design and Typography of Louise Fili (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,338 ratings — published 2012
“A page of a book is like a human face. Look at a page by Hemingway and compare it with Sterne and Marcel Proust. They are different typographical beings. But force upon them those ragged edges, and the influence of the author’s style on the physical aspect of the page, their typographical physiognomy will disappear. No, unjustified setting is a sort of gleichschaltung [enforced conformity] through diversity, a very phoney diversity. Produced methodically by chance. For the comfort of the keyboard, and not for the comfort of the eye.”
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