Must Reads for Typography Nerds

1.
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts 3.95 avg rating — 60,497 ratings
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The Elements of Typographic Style
The Elements of Typographic Style 4.26 avg rating — 9,030 ratings
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Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now
Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now 4.46 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Designing Type
Designing Type 4.35 avg rating — 362 ratings
4.
Detail in Typography
Detail in Typography 4.34 avg rating — 604 ratings
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Anatomy of a Typeface
Anatomy of a Typeface 4.01 avg rating — 142 ratings
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Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate
Marcel's Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man's Fate 4.04 avg rating — 1,036 ratings
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks 3.96 avg rating — 2,068 ratings
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Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design
Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design 4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings
10.
The Visible Word: Problems of Legibility
The Visible Word: Problems of Legibility 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Stroke: Theory of Writing
The Stroke: Theory of Writing 4.14 avg rating — 162 ratings
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Rookledge's international handbook of type designers: A biographical directory
Rookledge's international handbook of type designers: A biographical directory
by: Ron Eason
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Modern Typography: an essay in critical history
Modern Typography: an essay in critical history 4.09 avg rating — 88 ratings
14.
Wordplay
Wordplay 3.90 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Cómo crear tipografías
Cómo crear tipografías 4.35 avg rating — 51 ratings
14.
Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans: A Designer's Almanac of Dos and Don'ts
Thou Shall Not Use Comic Sans: A Designer's Almanac of Dos and Don'ts 3.95 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design
Graphic Icons: Visionaries Who Shaped Modern Graphic Design really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 53 ratings
14.
On Becoming a Dinosaur
On Becoming a Dinosaur 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The ABC of Custom Lettering: A Practical Guide to Drawing Letters
The ABC of Custom Lettering: A Practical Guide to Drawing Letters 4.58 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Type Tricks: Your Personal Guide to Type Design
Type Tricks: Your Personal Guide to Type Design 4.49 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Pioneers of Modern Typography
Pioneers of Modern Typography 3.93 avg rating — 60 ratings
21.
How many female type designers do you know? I know many and talked to some!
How many female type designers do you know? I know many and talked to some! 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
23.
Typologia: Studies in Type Design and Type Making
Typologia: Studies in Type Design and Type Making 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students
Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students 4.12 avg rating — 12,461 ratings
23.
Let’s Talk Type
Let’s Talk Type 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination
The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination 4.07 avg rating — 73 ratings
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An Approach to Type
An Approach to Type liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
28.
Type and Typography
Type and Typography 3.94 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Made With Fontfont: Type for Independent Minds
Made With Fontfont: Type for Independent Minds really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings