Typography category: 75 books

This show-all romp through design-world darling Jessica Hische's sketchbook reveals the creative and technical process behind making award-winning hand lettering. See everything, from Hische's rough sketches to her polished finals for major clients such as Wes Anderson, NPR, and Starbucks. The result...

Ivan Chermayeff said of Logo Theory: "at last somebody actually understands what identity design is all about and how it is accomplished." • Learn why certain corporate identities have been used for decades, some for more than half a century, and still look contemporary, while others...

A colorful compendium of little white lies, based on the award-winning, “bitingly honest” blog (Imprint).   From the diet you’re going to start tomorrow to that call you were about to make when something (anything) else came up—life is full of little lies that get us through the day. With...

Over 100 hands-on recipes to quickly prepare LaTeX documents of various kinds to solve challenging tasks About This Book Work with modern document classes, such as KOMA-Script classes Explore the latest LaTeX packages, including TikZ, pgfplots, and biblatex An example-driven approach to creating...

In 1948, the world-renowned book designer Bruce Rogers wrote a brief text that documented and illustrated his creation of the Centaur typeface several decades earlier: The Centaur Types. The book was privately printed by Rogers himself under the name of his design studio, October House. This limited...

More than 350 decorative designs in this impressive collection, including 256 letters, display the glories of extant medieval manuscripts. Rare letters and borders that once enhanced medieval bibles and other rare manuscripts are ornamented with exquisite florals, curvilinear motifs interwoven with religious figures, and other exquisite embellishments.

Monograms, once indicators of social or commercial exclusiveness, are now symbols of creativity, testaments to the idea that everyone deserves to individualize his or her own things. The remarkable Encyclopedia of Monograms—filled with over 11,000 handsomely engraved initials, ciphers, crests, insignias,...

Travel the globe with 32 typographic prints inspired by the world’s greatest cities, all the way from Amsterdam to Zurich, with stops in Paris, Rio and Tokyo along the way. Also features quirky trivia on each city.

Cosa ci raccontano le immagini? Qual è il potere comunicativo che custodiscono, ed esprimono, quando vengono scelte come copertine di un’opera letteraria? Manola Bacchis, nel suo originalissimo lavoro, ci guida alla scoperta delle Prime di Copertina de Il giorno del giudizio di Salvatore Satta....

When it comes to book production, InDesign is your best tool for graphic production. Even Photoshop are commonly put in a special graphic container produced in InDesign, exported as a PDF, and then placed into the book. InDesign is the best graphics tool for book production This book, which...

Pressoché sconosciute fino a vent'anni fa, grazie all'avvento della tecnologia informatica oggi le font sono a tutti gli effetti protagoniste del nostro quotidiano. Ma quali sono state le tappe che le hanno portate a uscire dalla ristretta cerchia di addetti ai lavori e di qualche sparuto appassionato?...

Chicago–based jewelry engraver J. M. Bergling (1866–1933) created thousands of letter styles, signets, monograms, and ciphers. A noted author on the subjects of lettering and heraldic design, Bergling created books that became standard references of his era. He assembled his first book, Art...

Now in its fourth iteration, revised and dramatically expanded with over 100 new pages, Julian Rothenstein's classic compendium, A2Z+ remains the ultimate source for unusual, inventive fonts not found anywhere else: the "Tippler" alphabet created from an elegant, drunk man's meanderings,...

This paper offers two key considerations, which are strongly related to each other: “Aesthetic Standards for the eBook” and “The Aesthetic Divide between Print and Digital.”