Indices : Books
A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. “The Triumvirate of Typography”—selected primary works of three authors—offers a foundation for every great typographic library. Included below is an evolving index of notable books written about the art and history of typography and type-design.
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About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design. - Zapf, Hermann, (Translated by Paul Standard), MIT Press, 1970
Active literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography Burke, Christopher, Hyphen Press 2007
Alphabet Abecedarium, The: Some Notes on Lettering -Firmage, Richard A., David R. Godine,
Alphabet: The history, evolution & design of the letters we use today -Haley, Allan, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1995
The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering -Goudy, Frederic. Dorset Press, New York, 1989
Alphabetic Labyrinth, The: The Letters in History and Imagination -Drucker, Johanna, Thames and Hudson 1995
American Metal Typefaces Of The Twentieth Century -McGrew, Mac. Oak Knoll Books, 1993.
Anatomy of a Typeface -Lawson, Alexander. David R. Godine Pub., 1990
The Art of Hand Lettering -Wotzkow, Helm. Dover, 1967
Blackletter: Type and National Identity -Shaw, Paul & Peter Bain, The Cooper Union/Princeton Architectural Press, May, 1998
Book of Oz Cooper, The: A Tribute to Oswald Bruce Cooper -Society of Typographic Arts, Society of Typographic Arts, Chicago, 1947
Book of Scripts, A (4th Ed.) -Alfred Fairbank, Faber, 1977
Book Typography 1815-1965, in Europe and the United States of America - Day, Kenneth. University of Chicago Press, 1966
The Centaur Types -Bruce Rogers, Purdue University Press, 1996
Complete Manual of Typography, The - Felici, James. Adobe/Peachpit Press, 2003
Counterpunch: Making Type in the Sixteenth Century, Designing Typefaces Now -Smeijers, Fred. Hyphen Press, 1996
Designing Type -Cheng, Karen. Yale University Press, 2006
Development of Script and Type, The -Meier, Hans Eduard. Syntax, 1994
A Dissertation upon English Typographical Founders and Foundries -Mores, Edward Rowe. Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1961
Doors of Perception, Essays in book typography -Duncan, Harry. Wind River Press, 1987
Elements of Lettering -Goudy, Frederic W. M. Kennerley, 1922
Elements of Typographic Style -Bringhurst, Robert. Hartley & Marks, Vancouver, 1997.
Essay on Typography -Gill, Eric. David R. Godine, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, 1993. Reprint of the 1931 original.
Exploring Typography -Rabinowitz, Tova. Thomson and Delmar, Clifton Park, NY, 2006.
First Principles of Typography -Morison, Stanley. Macmillan Co., New York & Univeristy Press, Cambridge, 1936.
Font Technology: Methods and Tools -Karow, Peter (Foreword by Gerard Unger). Springer Verlag/URW, 1994
FontBook -Spiekermann, Erik, Jürgen Siebert, Mai-Linh Thi Truong. FSI FontShop International, Berlin, 2006.
Fontographer: Type by Design -Moye, Stephen. MIS:Press, 1995
Fonts & Logos -Young, Doyald. Delphi Press, 1999
Form of the Book, The: Essays on the Morality of Good Design. (Reprint) -Tschichold, Jan & Hajo Hadeler, Hartley & Marks, 1995
Goudy’s Type Designs, His Story and Specimens -Goudy, Frederic W. Oak Knoll Press, 1979
Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels - Macrakis, Michael S. ed. Oak Knoll Press, 1996
Grid Systems In Graphic Design
Gutenberg, Johann, and his Bible: A Historical Study -Ing, Janet Thompson. British Library, 1988 (2nd Edition,Typophiles, 1990)
Gutenberg, Johann: The Man & His Invention -Kapr, Albert (Translated by Douglas Martin), Scolar Press, 1995
Helvetica: Homage to a Typeface -Müller, Lars ed. Lars Müller Publishers/Princeton Architectural Press, 2000
Indie Fonts -Kegler, Richard ed., Grieshaber, James ed., Riggs, Tamye ed. P-Type Publications, 2002
Indie Fonts 2 -Kegler, Richard ed., Grieshaber, James ed., Riggs, Tamye ed. P-Type Publications, 2003
Indie Fonts 3 -Kegler, Richard ed., Grieshaber, James ed., Riggs, Tamye ed. P-Type Publications/Rockport, 2007
Language, Culture, Type -Berry, John D. ed., ATypI, Surrey, 2002.
Learn FontLab Fast -Cabarga, Leslie. Iconoclassics Pub., Los Angeles,
2004.
Lessons in Formal Writing -Johnston, Edward. Taplinger. New York, 1986
Letter Forms, Two essays on their classification, history and bibliography -Morison, Stanley. Hartley & Marks, Vancouver, 1997.
Letter Forms: Typographic & Scriptorial (Reprinted Edition) -Morison, Stanley. Hartley & Marks, 1999
Lettering: Studies + Research on the Evolution of Writing and Print Typefaces -Tubaro, Antonio and Ivana. Thames and Hudson, 1994 (English Translation)
Lettering and Alphabets -Cavanagh
Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design -Tracy, Walter. David R. Godine, Publisher, 1986
Lissitzky, El: Life, Letters, Texts. -Lissitzky-Küppers, Sophie. Thames and Hudson, 1992
Logo, Font & Lettering Bible -Cabarga, Leslie
Logotypes & Letterforms -Young, Doyald. Design Press/McGraw-Hill, 1993
Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History -Kinross, Robin. Chronicle Books/Princeton Architectural Press, 1996
Modern Encyclopedia of Typefaces, 1960-90 -Wallis, Lawrence W. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990
On Stone: The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer - Stone, Sumner. Bedford Arts/Chronicle Books, 1991
Optical Letter Spacing for New Printing Systems -Kindersley, David G. Wynkyn de Worde Society/Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd., 1976
Origin of the American Point System for Printers’ Type Measurement. -Hopkins, Richard L. Hill & Dale Private Press, 1989
Origin of the Serif, The: Brush Writing & Roman Letters (2nd Ed.) -Catich, Edward M. Catich Gallery, St. Ambrose University, 1991
Period Styles: A History of Punctuation -Lupton, Ellen, J. P. Levinson, et al.. The Herb Lubalin Study Center, 1988
Pioneers of Modern Typography - Spencer, Herbert. MIT Press, 1983
Politics and Script. -Morison, Stanley. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1972
Printed Book in America, The - Blumenthal, Joseph, D.R. Godine, 1977 (Reissue by University Press of New England (HC) 1977, reprint by University Press of New England (PB) 1989)
Printing Types: An Introduction-Lawson, Alexander S. & Dwight Agner, Beacon Press, 1990
Printing Types: Their History, Forms & Use. (2 Vol.) -Updike, Daniel Berkeley. Harvard University, 1922, 1927, 1935, 1962
Printing Types: Their History, Forms & Use. (2 Vol.) -Updike, Daniel Berkeley, Dover Publications, 1980
Printing Types: Their History, Forms & Use. (2 Vol.) -Updike, Daniel Berkeley, Oak Knoll Press, 2001
Renner, Paul: The Art of Typography - Burke, Christopher. Hyphen Press/Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
Scribes and Sources: Handbook of the Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century -Osley, A.S. , David R. Godine, Publisher, 1980
Script Lettering for Artists -Tommy Thompson
Tally of Types, A -Morison, Stanley. David R. Godine, Publisher, 1999.
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors & Students -Lupton
Trajan Capitals, The -Goudy, Frederic W. Oxford University Press, 1936.
Treasury of Alphabets & Lettering: A Source Book- Tschichold, Jan. W.W. Norton & Co., 1995
Tschichold, Jan: Typographer - McLean, Ruari. David R. Godine, Publisher, 1975
Twentieth Century Type Designers - Carter, Sebastian. W.W. Norton & Co., 1995
Type and Typography - Baines, Phil & Haslam, Andrew. Watson Guptill, 2002
Type Foundries of America & their catalogs - Annenberg, Maurice. Oak Knoll Press, 1994
Type Sign Symbol -Adrian Frutiger, ABC Verlag, 1980
Typefaces for Books - Sutton, James. New Amsterdam Books, 1990
The Typographic Arts -Morison, Stanley
The Typographic Book, 1450-1935 - Morison, Stanley & Kenneth Day, University of Chicago Press, 1963
Typographic Communications Today -Gottschall, Edward M. MIT Press, 1989
Typographic Milestones -Haley, Allan. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991 (Reprint John Wiley & Sons, 1997)
Typographical Printing-Surfaces: The technology and mechanism of their production -Legros, Lucien Alphonse & John Cameron Grant, Longmans, Green & Co., 1916 (reprinted by Garland in, 1980)
Typographie - Aicher, Otl & Josef Rommen, W. Ernst & Sohn, Verlag, 1988
Typography: A Manual of Design - Ruder, Emil. Hastings House Publications, 1981
Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History - Friedl, Friedrich, Nicolaus Ott (Editor) & Bernard Stein, Black Dog & Leventhal, July, 1998
Typography: Macro- + Microæsthetics-Kunz, Willi. Verlag Niggli AG, 1998
Typography: Reflections on the Origins of My Typographic Work in Ten Chapters -Weingart, Wolfgang. Lars Müller Publishers/Princeton Architectural Press, December, 1999
Typologia -Goudy, Frederic W. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1977
Typology: Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age -Heller, Steven & Louise Fili. Chronicle Books , June, 1999
The Western Heritage of Type Design -Hutchings, R.S.. Cory, Adams, & Mackay Ltd, 1963
The Work of Jan van Krimpen -Dreyfus, John. Hartley & Marks, 1996
Visible Word, The: Experimental Typography & Modern Art, 1909-1923 -Drucker, Johanna. The University of Chicago Press, 1996
Zapf, Hermann & His Design Philosophy -Zapf, Hermann. Yale University Press, 1989
Das Schreiben als Kunstfertigkeit
Fraktur: The History & Formal Development of Fraktur Types -Kapr, Albert. Hermann Schmidt, 1993
Postscript: Zur Form von Schrift heute
Fontes digitais brasileiras: de 1989 a 2001 -Farias, Priscila; Piqueira, Gustavo(org). Rosari, 2003.
Herança Escultórica da Tipografia, A -Gaudêncio Jr, Norberto. Rosari, 2004
Projeto Tipográfico: análise e produção de fontes digitais -Rocha, Cláudio. Rosari, 2005
Tipografia: uma apresentação -Niemeyer, Lucy. 2AB, 2000
Tipografia Digital: o impacto das novas tecnologias -Farias, Priscila. 2AB, 2001
Tipos: desenho e utilização de letras no projeto gráfico -Pereira, Aldemar. Quartet, 2004
Elementos do Estilo Tipográfico -Bringhurst, Robert. Cosac Naify, 2005
Discussion:
Advice please: on useful old books to add to Typophile’s library
