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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 — 215,622 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 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
“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
