Typography Books

House Industries Lettering Manual by Ken Barber. Learn the history and techniques of hand lettering from a renowned design studio. This practical and visual guide features exercises, case studies, and typographic models for letter styles such as serif, sans serif, brush, and script–now featuring a new and improved binding.

Type and Color: How to Design and Use Multicolored Typefaces by Mark van Wageningen. A step-by-step guide to designing typefaces with multiple colors, essential new graphic design, and typography book.

In Typeset in the Future, blogger and designer Dave Addey invite sci-fi movie fans on a journey through seven genre-defining classics, discovering how they create compelling visions of the future through typography and design.

This comprehensive collection offers a thorough overview of typeface design from 1628 to the mid-20th century. Derived from a distinguished Dutch collection, a series of exquisitely designed catalogs traces the evolution of the printed letter via specimens in roman, italic, bold, semibold, narrow, and broad fonts. Borders, ornaments, initial letters, and decorations are also included, along with lithographic examples, letters by signwriters, inscription carvers, and calligraphers.

Explore the fundamentals of typography with this practical new guide. An instructional reader rather than historical survey, Design Elements: Typography Fundamentals uses well-founded, guiding principles to teach the language of type and how to use it capably.

Typography gathers a selection of the most creative design projects from all over the world ranging from branding, poster, and packaging design to space design.

Louise Fili's impact on the design world can be traced back to the 1980s, when she made a significant contribution to book cover design as the art director for Pantheon Books. She created nearly 2000 iconic book jackets during her tenure.

The Designer’s Dictionary of Type follows in the footsteps of The Designer’s Dictionary of Color, providing a vivid and highly accessible look at an even more important graphic design ingredient: Typography. From classic fonts like Garamond and Helvetica to modern-day digital fonts like OCR-A and Keedy Sans, author and designer Sean Adams demystifies 48 major typefaces, describing their history, stylistic traits, and common application.

In his foreword, Professor Meredith Davis writes a change in how we teach typography is long overdue. This book breaks new ground, approaching the ever-changing environment of contemporary typography through explanations of how and why typography works or does not work, in a given context.

Type on Screen. A critical guide for designers, writers, developers, and students by Ellen Lupton. The long-awaited follow-up to our all-time bestseller thinking with type is here. Type on Screen is the definitive guide to using classic typographic concepts of form and structure to make dynamic compositions for screen-based applications.