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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 — 9,050 ratings — published 1992
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 206 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,550 ratings — published 2004
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as typography)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,648 ratings — published 2010
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,212 ratings — published 1993
Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as typography)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,025 ratings — published 1971
The New Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,092 ratings — published 1928
The Anatomy of Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as typography)
avg rating 4.16 — 409 ratings — published 2012
Detail in Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as typography)
avg rating 4.33 — 615 ratings — published 2005
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 — 629 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 42 times as typography)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,149 ratings — published 2013
Type Matters! (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 38 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 430 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 36 times as typography)
avg rating 4.35 — 369 ratings — published 2006
On Web Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 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 — 400 ratings — published 1993
Anatomy of a Typeface (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as typography)
avg rating 4.01 — 141 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
A Type Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 391 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 — 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 3.88 — 215 ratings — published 2014
Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as typography)
avg rating 4.46 — 97 ratings — published 1997
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,310 ratings — published 1996
Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as typography)
avg rating 4.32 — 298 ratings — published 2011
Typographic Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 191 ratings — published 2007
Why Fonts Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 3.89 — 471 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 — 300 ratings — published 1975
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,110 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
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 — 872 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 — 168 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 4.56 — 66 ratings — published
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 — 137 ratings — published 1997
Type: The Secret History of Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as typography)
avg rating 4.02 — 178 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 — 216,186 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 — 225 ratings — published 2013
Elegantissima: The Design and Typography of Louise Fili (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as typography)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,339 ratings — published 2012
“You can say, "I love you," in Helvetica. And you can say it with Helvetica Extra Light if you want to be really fancy. Or you can say it with the Extra Bold if it's really intensive and passionate, you know, and it might work.”
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“Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading.”
― Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
― Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
