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The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 252 times as typography)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,088 ratings — published 1992
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,632 ratings — published 2004
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as typography)
avg rating 3.95 — 62,150 ratings — published 2010
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 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 55 times as typography)
avg rating 4.17 — 412 ratings — published 2012
The New Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,097 ratings — published 1928
Detail in Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.33 — 621 ratings — published 2005
An Essay on Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as typography)
avg rating 3.55 — 653 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 4.36 — 628 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 — 2,215 ratings — published 2013
Type Matters! (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 38 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 437 ratings — published 2012
Typography Sketchbooks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as typography)
avg rating 4.28 — 724 ratings — published 2011
Designing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as typography)
avg rating 4.35 — 373 ratings — published 2006
On Web Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as typography)
avg rating 4.14 — 474 ratings — published 2014
Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as typography)
avg rating 4.10 — 401 ratings — published 1993
Anatomy of a Typeface (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as typography)
avg rating 4.01 — 143 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 — 219 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 — 394 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 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 — 4,365 ratings — published 1996
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 3.89 — 483 ratings — published 2016
Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 4.32 — 297 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 — 1,115 ratings — published 2004
Hand Job: A Catalog of Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as typography)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,377 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
The Stroke: Theory of Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as typography)
avg rating 4.10 — 171 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 4.58 — 69 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 — 871 ratings — published 2015
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 3.89 — 141 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 4.56 — 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 — 284 ratings — published 2004
The Fundamentals of Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 151 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 — 217,910 ratings — published 2012
Pioneers of Modern Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as typography)
avg rating 3.93 — 60 ratings — published 1983
Butterick's Practical Typography (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.38 — 230 ratings — published 2013
Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.41 — 69 ratings — published 2000
“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
“Accidental associations are rarely a good basis for choosing a typeface. Books of poems by the twentieth-century Jewish American poet Marvin Bell, for example, have sometimes been set in Bell type -which is eighteenth-century, English and Presbyterian - solely because of the name. Such puns are a private amusement for typographers; they also sometimes work. But a typographic page so well designed that it attains a life of its own will be based on real affinities, not on an inside joke.
Letterforms have character, spirit and personality. Typographers learn to discern these features through years of working first-hand with the forms, and through studying and comparing the work of other designers, present and past. On close inspection, typefaces reveal many hints of their designers' times and temperaments, and even their nationalities and religious faiths. Faces chosen on these grounds are likely to give more interesting results than faces chosen through mere convenience of availability or coincidence of name.”
― The Elements of Typographic Style
Letterforms have character, spirit and personality. Typographers learn to discern these features through years of working first-hand with the forms, and through studying and comparing the work of other designers, present and past. On close inspection, typefaces reveal many hints of their designers' times and temperaments, and even their nationalities and religious faiths. Faces chosen on these grounds are likely to give more interesting results than faces chosen through mere convenience of availability or coincidence of name.”
― The Elements of Typographic Style
