Typography Books
Design: Type
Featuring a curated collection of about 500 exquisite designs, along with essays from top designers about the essence and importance of good typography in design, Design: Type is an insightful resource filled with mini-workshops that dissect several featured projects and highlight the effectiveness of the type treatments.
Font Technology: Methods and Tools
Font Technology: Methods and Tools offers various chapters about issues like intelligent font scaling, kerning, quality of type, legibility, and problems of different output devices.
Type Matters!
Matters! is a book of tips for everyday use, for all users of typography, from students and professionals to anyone who does any layout design on a computer. The book is arranged into three chapters: an introduction to the basics of typography; headline and display type; and setting text. Within each chapter there are sections devoted to particular principles or problems, such as selecting the right typeface, leading, and the treatment of numbers.
I Love Type 06: Franklin Gothic
I Love Type 06: Franklin Gothic, internationally acclaimed designers including Akatre, Cypher13, Eat Sleep Work / Play, Founded, G Design Studio, Idealismo, Make Studio, Stiletto nyc, and Studio Blanco show off their finest creations incorporating the grace and style of Franklin Gothic.
Mastering Type
By breaking down the study of type into a systematic progression of relationships-letter, word, sentence, paragraph, page and screen-award-winning graphic designer and professor of communication design Denise Bosler provides a unique and illuminating perspective on typography for both print and digital media and for designers of all skill levels.
Typography
This book moves beyond the traditional rules-based approach by describing typography as a system of interrelated concerns heavily influenced by the contexts of audience, medium, and message. It presents the key visual and intellectual skills necessary to make informed design decisions when using typography for modern contexts and audiences and gives full attention to designing with type in digital media.
Reading Letters
Reading Letters is a serious and engaging compilation of knowledge from the design and scientific communities, supplemented by visual examples of legibility. A must-have for type designers and graphic designers.
The Education of a Typographer
Exploring the methods for teaching and learning typography, this book features more than 40 essays from top experts and educators in typography today. These essays run the gamut from introducing the themes of type and typography to various complex and rare strategies for learning.
Typography for the People
Designers Daniel and Klaus Bellon have been photographing street signage around the world for more than 17 years. This book celebrates their love of typography, and highlights the beauty of type in its truest form; not as a profession but as a necessity of everyday life.
Vintage Type and Graphics
Exquisite graphic design artifacts comprise this unusual collection culled from the pages of type and typography books dating from 1896 to 1936. The book features rare, never-before-reprinted type specimens, vintage layouts, logos, and decorations that will serve as an inspiration and resource for practicing and aspiring graphic designers.
100 Wood Type Alphabets
The rich designs and figure-ground qualities of 19th-century American wood types are beautifully displayed in this collection of 100 fonts, many reproduced at actual size. Each font features a complete alphabet of capitals, and many include lowercase letters as well as numerals and punctuation marks, plus useful and decorative woodblock motifs.
Typography, Referenced
Typography, Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography is the ultimate reference on typographic history, design, and practice within the past thirteen years. It includes type terminology, typefaces, type design and development, principles of typography and classification, significant type designers, type foundries and much more all fully illustrated.
Polish Neon: Cold War Typography and Design
Polish Neon: Cold War Typography and Design tells the fascinating story of neon in Poland by preserving and celebrating the remnants of this rich and influential history. Comprising archival and contemporary photographs of these mesmerizing signs, as well as original designs and interviews with the designers, this book reveals an untold story of Poland and how a communist bureaucracy helped shape the future of graphic design and typography.
Basics Typography: Using Type
Basics Typography: Using Type provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the subject of Typography. What typography is (and what it isn't), how and when to use it, and how to refine typographic etiquette are all covered in this essential reference book.
Handfont, Handwork
A breath of fresh air for graphic artists in our standardized, digital age: a book of fonts with the warmth and texture of hand-lettering. This inspirational book from the wizards at BNN is chock-full of charming, imaginative design applications using 102 different fonts that emulate script, stencils, typewriters, rubber stamps and all that great stuff human beings used to do before computers took over.
An Alphabetical Book About Nokia Pure
This exploration of Nokia's new typeface offers inspiration and insight for establishing an indispensable visual language. Twenty-six characters details how Nokia's new typeface, Nokia Pure, was designed and developed with the user interface in mind and how it was
Typography Sketchbooks
Arranged by Steven Heller, this collection of typographic explorations intimately reveals how nearly 120 of the worlds leading designers and typographers continually strive to find new and exciting ways of communicating through letters and words, and provides fascinating insights into their work.
Type Navigator
Type Navigator is a useful current handbook of modern fonts, independent foundries, and innovative type designers that provides an overview of today's vast market. This comprehensive publication offers a valuable overview of international sources for quality fonts.
Alex Trochut
Just 30 years old, Alex Trochut is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish designers. Typographer and illustrator, Trochut shows us in this book his most intimate, most personal and, at the same time, professional side. Trochut talks about his professional influences such as Dali and Miro and of course about his work, but also about his creative processes. In this book we find an entire series of sketches and the transformations his ideas undergo from the moment they are conceived until they reach the paper.
Just My Type
Beginning in the early days of Gutenberg and ending with the most adventurous digital fonts, Simon Garfield explores the rich history and subtle powers of type.
Typography for Lawyers
Based on the popular website, Typography for Lawyers is the first guide to the essentials of typography aimed specifically at lawyers. Author Matthew Butterick, a Harvard-trained typographer and practicing attorney, dispels the myth that legal documents are incompatible with excellent typography.
InDesign Type
Adobe InDesign is the world's premier page-layout tool, and its user-friendly yet sophisticated typographic controls are a big reason why. This updated edition of Nigel French's InDesign Type, the first book to focus exclusively on the typographic features of InDesign, provides a comprehensive overview of the application's vast array of type capabilities, from the basics of character-level formatting to strategies for designing complex layouts using grids.
The 3D Type Book
This book is the most comprehensive showcase of three-dimensional letterforms ever written, featuring over 1,300 images of more than 300 projects by more than 160 emerging talents and established individuals and studios.
Typo Latino
Typo Latino showcases the work of emerging typographers as well as established type designers from across the globe.
Never Use More Than Two Different Typefaces
Never Use More Than Two Different Typefaces is about 'ridiculous' rules in typography; a joy for graphic designers and everyone who has anything to do with designing texts.
Typography 31
For over fifty years, the Type Directors Club has encouraged the worldwide graphic arts community to achieve excellence in typography through its annual international competitions. Typography 31 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field for the year 2009.
Typex
This book does not intend to be anything more than a record of the classes that Hernán Ordonez has given over the last six years in the Basque Country. It contains many of the experimental proposals made between 2004 and 2010 in the design and typography classes and workshops, taking the reader to a journey through the processes, searched, objectives and achievements.
Hyperactivitypography
The colorful pages of Hyperactivitypography from A to Z present a simple and fun, yet amazingly clever how-to that celebrates typography in all its complexity.
The Visual Dictionary of Typography
The Visual Dictionary of Typography is a comprehensive guide to the numerous terms used within typography and its associated disciplines.
Playful Type 2
Playful Type 2 examines how designers are using a variety of techniques to produce typography and lettering in a range of innovative styles.