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Typography Books
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The Elements of Typographic Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as typography)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,040 ratings — published 1992
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,509 ratings — published 2004
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as typography)
avg rating 3.95 — 61,149 ratings — published 2010
Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,206 ratings — published 1993
Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as typography)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,024 ratings — published 1971
The New Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as typography)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,090 ratings — published 1928
Detail in Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as typography)
avg rating 4.33 — 610 ratings — published 2005
The Anatomy of Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as typography)
avg rating 4.16 — 406 ratings — published 2012
An Essay on Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as typography)
avg rating 3.54 — 640 ratings — published 1931
The Complete Manual of Typography: A Guide to Setting Perfect Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as typography)
avg rating 4.11 — 628 ratings — published 2002
Typographie: A Manual on Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as typography)
avg rating 4.37 — 622 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 — 2,113 ratings — published 2013
Type Matters! (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 38 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 427 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 34 times as typography)
avg rating 4.35 — 367 ratings — published 2006
On Web Typography (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as typography)
avg rating 4.15 — 470 ratings — published 2014
Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as typography)
avg rating 4.10 — 398 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 4.36 — 339 ratings — published 2009
A Type Primer (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as typography)
avg rating 4.19 — 386 ratings — published 2002
Type on Screen: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Developers, and Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as typography)
avg rating 3.88 — 214 ratings — published 2014
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
Typographic Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 192 ratings — published 2007
Rastersysteme für die visuelle Gestaltung (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as typography)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,273 ratings — published 1996
Scripts: Elegant Lettering from Design's Golden Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 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 4.29 — 297 ratings — published 1975
Grid Systems: Principles of Organizing Type (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as typography)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,109 ratings — published 2004
Why Fonts Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as typography)
avg rating 3.89 — 459 ratings — published 2016
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 4.35 — 172 ratings — published
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 4.12 — 165 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
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 — 860 ratings — published 2015
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
Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working with Type (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as typography)
avg rating 3.88 — 139 ratings — published 2009
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 4.10 — 149 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 — 215,043 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 4.35 — 48 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 — 1,340 ratings — published 2012
“However, [Edmund G. Gress] wrote, " we must not simplify to such an extent that life and movement are gone. That is where those persons go wrong who claim that type was made to read, and nothing else matters but the setting up of a paragraph in a legible type so that it can be easily read. We do not read everything that appears in print, but do read that which appears interesting.”
― Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design
― Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design
“Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy’s habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product.”
― Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
― Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
