Selection of Typography books recommended by various designers.
I hope the designers from LinkedIn group Designers Talk don’t mind ripping them of, but after all this list is the result of them trying to help colleagues.
Here is the never-ending list:
This site:
This blogs:
http://community.avid.com/blogs/adman/archive/2007/08/17/title-20.aspx
http://www.iLoveTypography.com/ http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/
Also this tutorial:
http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/five_simple_steps_to_better_typography
And last but not least this huge amount of book
Stop Stealing Sheep and Find Out How Type Works
Practical theory
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stop-Stealing-Sheep-Find-Works/dp/0201703394
Typography: A Textbook of Design
Conceptual theory
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Typography-Textbook-Design-Emil-Ruder/dp/3721200438
Typography: Formation +Transformation
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Typography-Formation-Transformation-Willi-Kunz/dp/3721204956
The Typographic Grid (Hardcover)
by Hans Rudolf Bosshard (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Typographic-Grid-Hans-Rudolf-Bosshard/dp/3721203402/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244216012&sr=1-1
Getting it Right with Type: The Dos and Don’ts of Typography (Paperback)
by Victoria Squire
Typographic Design: Form and Communication (Paperback)
by Rob Carter (Author), Ben Day (Author), Philip B. Meggs (Author)
The Layout Book (Advanced Level) (Paperback)
by Gavin Ambrose (Author), Paul Harris (Author)
The Elements of Typographic Style” by Robert Bringhurst.
American Wood Type, 1828-1900
by Rob Roy Kelly
Pub: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0-3068-0059-4
19th Century Ornamented Type Faces
by Nicolete Gray
Pub: University of California Press, Berkeley
ISBN: 0-520-03074-5
Blackletter: Type and National Identity
by Paul Shaw & Peter Bain
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1-56898-125-2
Designing Books: Practice and Theory
by Jost Hochuli & Robin Kinross
Pub: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0-907259-08-1
Alphabet Abecedarium, The: Some Notes on Lettering
by Richard A. Firmage
Pub: David R. Godine
ISBN: 0-87923-987-5
Alphabetic Labyrinth, The: The Letters in History and Imagination
by Johanna Drucker
Pub: Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0-500-01608-9
Important Typographers
Multilingual Typograhy
Typography: Reflections on the Origins of My Typographic Work
in Ten Chapters
by Wolfgang Weingart
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 3-907044-86-X
Tschichold, Jan: A Life in Typography
by Ruari McLean
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1-56898-084-1
The Work of Jan van Krimpen
by John Dreyfus
Pub: Hartley & Marks
ISBN: 0-88179-112-1
Typographically Speaking
by Margaret Re, Johanna Drucker, James Mosley
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568984278
Elements of Typographic Style, The
by Robert Bringhurst
Pub: Hartley & Marks
ISBN: 0-88179-132-6
Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
by Geoffrey Dowding
Pub: Hartley & Marks Publishers
ISBN: 0-88179-119-9
Typography: Macro- + Microaesthetics
by Willi Kunz
Pub: Verlag Niggli AG
ISBN: 3-7212-0348-8
The Complete Manual of Typography
by James Felici
Pub: Adobe Press
ISBN: 0321127307
About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography
by David Jury
Pub: Rotovision
ISBN: 2880466776
Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works
byErik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger
Pub: Adobe Press
ISBN: 0-672-48543-5
Design With Type
by Carl Dair
Pub: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0-8020-6519-8
Designing With Type: A Basic Course in Typography
by James Craig, William Bevington & Susan E. Meyer
Pub: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0-8230-1347-2
Typographic Design: Form and Communication
by Rob Carter, Ben Day, Philip B. Meggs
Pub: Van Nostrand Reinhold
ISBN: 0-442-00759-0
Type & Typography
by Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam
Pub: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823055248
A Type Primer
by John Kane
Pub: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013099071X
Language Culture Type:
International Type Design in the Age of Unicode
by John D. Berry
Pub: Graphis Pr
ISBN: 1932026010
Type Specimen Books
American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
by Mac McGrew
Pub: Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 0-938768-39-5
