Learning Type Design

with Charles Nix

One Hundred Books about Typography

Must Read
Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography
James Craig, William Bevington, and Irene Korol Scala

Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton

Printing Types: Their History, Form, and Use

Daniel Berkeley Updike

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

Asymmetric Typography
Jan Tschichold

Layout in Advertising
William A. Dwiggins

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward R. Tufte

Meggs’ History of Graphic Design

Philip B. Meggs and Alston W. Purvis

Learning Type Design with Charles Nix

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Should Read

Origin of the Serif

Edward M. Catich and Mary W. Gilroy

The New Typography

Jan Tschichold and Ruari McLean

An Essay on Typography
Eric Gill and Christopher Skelton

First Principles of Typography

Stanley Morison

Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works

Erik Spiekermann and E.M. Ginger

Writing & Illuminating & Lettering

Edward Johnston and Maggie Mack

The Encyclopaedia of Typefaces

W. Turner Berry, A. F. Johnson, and W. Pincus Jaspart

Manuale Tipografico
Giambattista Bodoni, David Pankow and David Darling

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Good Read

ABC of Lettering and Printing Typefaces: A Complete Guide to the Letters and Typefaces Used for
Typesetting and Printing
Erik Lindgren

The Art of Graphic Design

Bradbury Thompson

Design Writing Research

Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller

Paragraphs on Printing
Bruce Rogers

Typography: My Way to Typography

Wolfgang Weingart and K. Wolff

Type Rules: The Designer’s Guide to Professional Typography

Ilene Strizver

Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering

Jan Tschichold

American Wood Type: 1828–1900

Rob Roy Kelly

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Alphabetical Listing

“Fine Print” on Type: The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography
Charles Bigelow, Paul Hayden Duensing, and Linnea Gentry (editors)

Twentieth Century Type Designers

Sebastian Carter

A Short History of the Printed Word

Warren Chappell and Robert Bringhurst

A Tally of Types
Stanley Morison and Brooke Crutchley

ABC of Lettering and Printing Typefaces: A Complete Guide to the Letters and Typefaces Used for
Typesetting and Printing
Erik Lindgren

American Wood Type: 1828–1900

Rob Roy Kelly

An Approach to Type
John R. Biggs

An Essay on Typography
Eric Gill

Anatomy of a Typeface
Alexander S. Lawson

Arabic Typography
Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares

Art of the Printed Book, 1455–1955

Joseph Blumenthal

Asymmetric Typography
Jan Tschichold

Better Type
Betty Binns

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Book Typography: A Designer’s Manual
Michael and Susan Wightman Mitchell

Champ Rose: Wherein May Be Discovered the Roman Letters That Were Made by Geofroy Tory and
Printed by Him at Paris in His Book Called “Champ Fleury”
Geoffrey Tory

Counterpunch: Making Type in the 16th Century, Designing Typefaces Now

Fred Smeijers

Design of Books
Adrian Wilson

Design Writing Research

Ellen Lupton

Designing Books: Practice and Theory

Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross

Designing with Type: The Essential Guide to Typography

James Craig, William Bevington, Irene Korol Scala

Dimensional Typography: Words in Space

J. Abbott Miller

Emigre: Graphic Design into the Digital Realm

Rudy Vanderlans, Zuzana Licko, Mary E. Gray and Jeffery Keedy

Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type

Geoffrey Dowding

First Principles of Typography

Stanley Morison

Five Hundred Years of Printing

S. H. Steinberg and John Trevitt

Glossary of Typesetting Terms

Richard Eckersley, et al.

Herb Lubalin
Gertrude Snyder and Alan Peckolick

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Hermann Zapf and His Design Philosophy
Herman Zapf

In the Day’s Work

Daniel Berkeley Updike

Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer

Ruari Mclean

John Baskerville of Birmingham

F. E Pardoe

Language Culture Type

John D. Berry

Lay In, Lay Out; En Ander Oud Zeer

Piet Schreuders

Layout in Advertising
W. A. Dwiggins

Leben und Werk des Typographen Jan Tschichold

Jan Tschichold

Letter Forms, Typographic and Scriptorial, Two Essays

Stanley Morison

Letterletter
Gerrit Noordzij

Letters of Credit
Walter Tracy

Life with Letters—As They Turned Photogenic

Edward Rondthaler

Manuale Tipografico
Giambattista Bodoni, David Pankow, and David Darling

Meggs’ History of Graphic Design

Philip B. Meggs and Alston W. Purvis

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Mixing Messages
Ellen Lupton

Modern Typography, 2nd Edition

Robin Kinross

Origin of the Serif

Edward M. Catich and Mary W. Gilroy

Paragraphs on Printing
Bruce Rogers

Period Styles: A History of Punctuation

The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography

Practice of Typography
Theodore Low De Vinne

Printing Types: Their History, Form and Use

D.B. Updike

Rookledge’s Classic International Typefinder

Christopher Perfect, Gordon Rookledge, and Phil Baines

Signs and Symbols

Adrian Frutiger and Andrew Bluhm

Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works

Erik Spiekermann

Stylepedia
Steven Heller and Louise Fili

Texts on Type
Steven Heller, Philip B. Meggs

The ABC’s of [Triangle Circle Square]: The Bauhaus and Design Theory
Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller

The Art of Graphic Design

Bradbury Thompson

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The Art of Typo(icon)graphy
Martin Solomon

The Education of a Typographer

Steven Heller

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

The Encyclopaedia of Typefaces

W. Turner Berry, A. F. Johnson. W. Pincus Jaspart

The Form of the Book

Jan Tschichold

The Metafont Book

Donald E. Knuth

The New Typography

Jan Tschichold

The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography

Ruari Mclean

The Typographic Book, 1450–1935

Stanley Morison and Kenneth Day

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward Tufte

The Work of Jan Van Krimpen

John Dreyfus

Thinking with Type

Ellen Lupton

Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering

Jan Tschichold

Type Rules!
Ilene Strizver

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Typencyclopedia: A User’s Guide to Better Typography
Frank Romano

Typographers on Type
Ruari Mclean

Typography
Friedrich Friedl

Typography
Emil Ruder

Typography
Willi Kunz

Typologia
Frederic W. Goudy

Typophile Chapbook: Designing a Book

Abe Lerner

Typophile Chapbook: Harsh Words

T. M. Cleland

Typophile Chapbook: MSS by WAD

W. A. Dwiggins

Typophile Chapbook: The Kelmscott Press, 1891 to 1898

William Morris

Typophile Chapbook: The Type Designs Made for Private and Commercial Use, 1896 to 1943
Frederic W. Goudy

Typophile Chapbook: Theodore Low De Vinne

Carl Purington Rollins

Typophiles Chapbook: Ands & ampersands, from the first century B.C. to the twentieth A.D
Frederic W Goudy

Typophiles Chapbook: B. Franklin, 1706–1790

Benjamin Franklin

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Typophiles Chapbook: B.L.W. to the Typophiles
Beatrice Warde

Typophiles Chapbook: Books and Printing

Paul A. Bennett

Typophiles Chapbook: Postscripts on Dwiggins

Paul A. Bennet

Typophiles Chapbook: William Caxton and His Quincentenary

John Dreyfus

U&lc
John D. Berry

While You’re Reading

Gerard Unger

Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography

Wolfgang Weingart, K. Wolff

Writing & Illuminating & Lettering

Edward Johnston

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