Typography books

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Typography books

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I've recently become very interested in the topic of typography. I've noticed that a site, even if not designed especially well, looks excellent if the person doing layout knows how to layout the type. This is very interesting to me. I think I'm starting to catch on to the typography thing, but I need a shove in the right direction. Anybody know of a good book on the subject?

EDIT: I should be more specific... I don't really care about print typography... I'm talking web typography. :)
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No.. A List Apart has a lot of articles on it though.

And yeah, I've noticed typography makes a big difference as well. For some older documents, I end up styling it with Firebug so I can read it better. Whitespace, san-serif, separation, clear section division... All helps.
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Just came across this article by A List Apart that outlines some stuff regarding type... It's a pretty interesting read, and really opened my eyes to 'grid' based designing.


http://bjorkoy.com/blueprint/typography-test.html
http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/
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Post by matthijs »

Excellent books are Grid systems by Josef Muller-Brockmann and Making and breaking the grid by Timothy Samara. Another inspirational book I recently got is Swiss graphic design by Hollis. More specifically about type is 20th century type remix by Lewis Blackwell.
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