 | Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use by Daniel Berkeley Updike
Buy used from: $136.45 The definitive reference of the history of the most common book typefaces.
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 | The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $17.00 The definitive reference for typographical style, also a joy to hold and to read.
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 | Letterletter by Gerrit Noordzij
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $9.25 Anyone interested in typeface design owes it to themselves to read this quirky and deeply intelligent book.
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 | Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design by Walter Tracy
Buy used from: $67.50 A valuable and concise history of recent printing types and the problems solved by their design.
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 | Counterpunch: Making Type in the 16th Century, Designing Typefaces Now by Fred Smeijers
Buy used from: $75.00 Those who don't know type history are doomed to repeat it, badly.
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 | Typographie: A Manual of Design by Emil Ruder
Buy new: $73.08 / Used from: $70.00 Because everyone needs to be exposed to Swiss design and the grid, and Ruder's text is one of the most playful.
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 | Typography: Macro and Microaesthetics by Willi Kunz
Buy new: $83.84 / Used from: $50.00 Ruder brought up to the present-day and given a focus on architectural poster design. Useful even if you hate architecture.
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 | Logo, Font & Lettering Bible by Leslie Cabarga
Buy new: $21.77 / Used from: $14.73 Will help you make the transition from seeing fonts as immutable objects to seeing them as plastic forms to be bent to your will, and built from scratch.
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 | Designing Books: Practice and Theory by Jost Hochuli
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $15.95 Expensive, but beautiful, concise, and just idiosyncratic enough to be essential.
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 | Modern Typography, 2nd Edition by Robin Kinross
Buy new: $20.90 / Used from: $18.96 It's more or less impossible to learn typography well without learning a lot of history. Kinross is a witty and enthusiastic teacher of most of the history you'll need.
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