Argetsinger aims to teach a new generation of designers how to uphold the standards and principles of the printers of old, in this strange new era when the composing stick is a text frame and the...
For decades now, typography has lacked a vital component. Yet most of us had no idea what was missing. Soon after type made the jump from metal and wood to film and digital, it became size agnost...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/size-specific-adjustments-to-type-designs/
Too many good ideas and interesting arguments about typography and design are trapped behind language barriers, inaccessible especially to Anglophones — I’ll pick on Americans, being one ...
Robert Bringhurst has issued the latest edition of what Hermann Zapf called the “Typographer’s Bible”. The news will surely be welcomed by his ardent followers, but does the book speak to a...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/the-elements-of-typographic-style-4th-edition/
In many ways, it’s just the right time to revive FUSE, Neville Brody and Jon Wozencroft’s experimental publication on fonts and typography. 2012 and 1991 (when FUSE was first published) share...
We’re in something of a period of Enlightenment with regards to typography. Thanks to the ubiquity of computers that give every user a choice of what font to use, along with an increase in the ...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/just-my-type-a-book-about-fonts/
As someone who works with typography and design every day, I have a few books I turn to when I need to clear my mind of clutter. One of my favorites is Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typog...
Jan Tschichold embraced extremes. His work, most notably “Die Neue Typographie”, embraced and defined modernist typographic ideas. At his most provocative Tschichold only condoned the use of ...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/jan-tschichold-master-typographer/
Fraktur Mon Amour is the work of Judith Schalansky, written while she was a student of the Communication Design program in Potsdam. She developed a serious passion for blackletter and was disappo...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/fraktur-mon-amour-2nd-edition/
Long before there were hi-res laser printers in every design firm and PDF specimens on every foundry website, typographers discovered, compared, and selected type using specimen books. There is t...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/fontbook-4th-edition/
Young describes the context in which the design was developed, and the motivations that drive decisions to completion – ranging from a client's desire for "something bolder still," to thorough ...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/review-dangerous-curves-by-doyald-young/
Since its inception in 1980, Hyphen Press has built an impressive catalog: more often than not, the imprint's titles are exercises in critical thinking and articulate design. Currently, Robin Kin...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/book-review-recent-hyphen-reprints/
U&lc: influencing design and typography is a recently published book that chronicles the acclaimed magazine from its birth in 1973 through the last issue printed in 1999. John D. Berry, U&lc edit...
Lately I’ve been reading many typography-related books, and I’d like to offer a few reviews of the more notable ones. The Fall of ATF is quite new, and it seems an appropriate subject for a f...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/book-review-the-fall-of-atf/
With the advent of the Macintosh computer and desktop publishing software in the 1980s, tasks once performed by others, such as typesetting and the creation of mechanicals, fell upon the designer...
https://typographica.org/typography-books/thinking-with-type-by-ellen-lupton/