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Typography books

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:47 pm
by Luke
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. :)

Re: Typography books

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:05 pm
by superdezign
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.

Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 6:29 pm
by nickvd
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/

Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 1:59 am
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.