Typography Bibliography

I love typography. For my contribution to an upcoming collection on the rhetoric of type, I consulted the following texts:

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Bennett, Paul A., & Bruce Rogers. (1963). Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles (1st Forum Ed.). Cleveland: World Pub. Co.

Berry, John D. (2006). dot-font: Talking about Fonts (1st ed.). New York: Mark Batty Publisher.

Bringhurst, Robert. (2004). The Elements of Typographic Style (3rd ed.). Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks, Publishers.

Carter, Sebastian. (1995). Twentieth Century Type Designers (New ed.). London: Lund Humphries Publishers.

Clair, Kate. (1999). A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry. New York: Wiley.

Coles, Stephen. (2012). The Anatomy of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Typefaces. New York: Harper Design.

Davis, Graham. (2007). The Designer’s Toolkit: 500 Grids and Style Sheets. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Dodd, Robin. (2006). From Gutenberg to OpenType: An Illustrated History of Type from the Earliest Letterforms to the Latest Digital Fonts. Vancouver, WA: Hartley & Marks Publishers.

AG, FontShop. (2014). 100 Best Typefaces Ever. Bath, U.K.: Future Publishing Ltd.

Garfield, Simon. (2011). Just My Type: A Book about Fonts. New York, New York: Gotham Books.

Harrower, Tim. (1995). The Newspaper Designer’s Handbook (3rd ed.). Madison, Wis: W.C.B., Brown & Benchmark Publishers.

Heller, Steven. (2004). The Education of a Typographer. New York: Allworth Press.

Heller, Steven., & Louise. Fili. (1997). Deco Type: Stylish Alphabets of the ‘20s & ‘30s. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.

Heller, Steven., & Philip B. Meggs. (2001). Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography. New York: Allworth Press.

Hilner, Matthias. (2009). Basics Typography: Virtual Typography. Ava Publishing.

Hyndman, Sarah. (2015). The Type Taster: How Fonts Influence You. Type Tasting.

Jaspert, W. Pincus., W. Turner Berry, & A. F. Johnson. (2001). The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces (Pbk. ed.). London New York: Cassell Paperbacks Distributed in the U.S. by Sterling Pub.

Loxley, Simon. (2016). Type is Beautiful: The Story of Fifty Remarkable Fonts. Oxford: Bodleian Library.

Loxley, Simon. (2004). Type: The Secret History of Letters. London; New York: I.B. Tauris.

Lupton, Ellen. (2004). Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (1st ed. Vol. Design briefs). New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Macmillan, Neil. (2006). An A-Z of Type Designers. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Martin, Keith, Robin Dodd, & Graham Davis. (2009). 1000 Fonts: An Illustrated Guide to Finding the Right Typeface. Chronicle Books.

(2007). Made with FontFont: Type for Independent Minds (1st ed.). New York: Mark Batty Publisher.

Morison, Stanley, & Brooke Crutchley. (1999). A Tally of Types: With Additions by Several Hands, and with a New Introduction by Mike Parker. Boston: D.R. Godine.

Parker, Roger C. (1993). Looking Good in Print (3rd ed.). Chapel Hill, NC: Ventana.

Perfect, Christopher, & Jeremy Austen. (1992). The Complete Typographer: A Manual for Designing with Type. Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice-Hall.

Purvis, Alston W. (2010). Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, 1901-1938 (2). Taschen.

Rabinowitz, Tova. (2006). Exploring Typography. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson Delmar Learning.

Samara, Timothy. (2006). Type Style Finder: The Busy Designer’s Guide to Choosing Type. Gloucester, Mass.: Rockport Publishers.

Spiekermann, Erik. (2014). Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works (3rd ed.). San Jose, CA: AdobePress.

Strizver, Ilene. (2001). Type Rules. Cincinnati, Ohio: North Light Books.

Tholenaar, Jan, & Alston W. Purvis. (2009). Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, 1628-1900 (1). TASCHEN America Llc.

Tice, Bruce, & Nadine Monem. (2008). Font. The SourceBook. Black Dog Publishing.

Troung, Mai-Linh T., Jürgen Siebert, & Erik Spiekermann. (2006). FontBook, 4th Edition (publ. 2006). FontShop International.

Updike, Daniel Berkeley. (2001). Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use (4th expanded. ed.). New Castle, Del. London: Oak Knoll Press British Library.

White, Alex. (1999). Type in Use: Effective Typography for Electronic Publishing (2nd ed.). New York: W.W. Norton.

White, Alex. (2005). Thinking in Type: The Practical Philosophy of Typography. New York, NY: Allworth Press.

Williams, Robin. (2004). The Non-Designers Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice (2nd ed.). Berkeley, Calif: Peachpit Press.