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
The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
Typographie: A Manual on Design
Type Matters!
Typography Sketchbooks
Designing Type
Homebodies by Tembe Denton-HurstBeijing Sprawl by Xu ZechenGirlhood by Melissa FebosAgainst White Feminism by Rafia ZakariaOutsiders by Alice   Slater
Repeating Word Covers
74 books — 5 voters

Just My Type by Simon GarfieldThe Elements of Typographic Style by Robert BringhurstThinking with Type by Ellen LuptonThe Form of the Book by Jan TschicholdGraphic Icons by John   Clifford
Typographic Classics
14 books — 8 voters
The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan FletcherThinking with Type by Ellen LuptonThings I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan SagmeisterThoughts on Design by Paul RandGraphic Design Rules by Sean Adams
Graphic Design
159 books — 31 voters

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
Конструктивизм by Aleksei GanBetween Worlds by Timothy O. BensonConstructivism by Aleksei GanCentral European Avant-Gardes by Timothy O. BensonThe Realistic Manifesto by Naum Gabo
Constructivism Reading List
37 books — 2 voters

Gerard Unger
“ Una y otra vez, los lectores se han condicionado mutuamente. ”
― Gerard Unger, ¿Qué ocurre mientras lees?: Tipografía y legibilidad

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

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