Typography and lettering Books
Studiomorefolio Caligrafía para adultos: Explorando la belleza de las letras - Mi primer cuaderno de caligrafía creativa
£10.66
Studiomorefolio Calligraphy Writing Paper: Enhance Your Calligraphy Skills with Premium Writing Paper for Practice
£12.63
Studiomorefolio Handwriting Practice Paper: Master the Art of Handwriting with Guided Practice for Beginners
£11.64
Studiomorefolio Calligraphy Workbook for Beginners
£9.99
StudioMoreFolio Wonky Lettering Workbook
£11.39
Canopus Editorial Digital LLC Tipos para imprenta
£28.26
PublishDrive The Little Graphic Design Book
£8.49
Independently Published CorelDRAW 2025 GUIDE DE LUTILISATEUR
£19.94
Independently Published Luminar Neo Guide de lUtilisateur
£999.99
Independently Published Adobe Photoshop Element Benutzerhandbuch 2026
£999.99
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Dori for Visual Design Prompts
£13.12
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Freecad 1.0 Guida Per lUtente
£17.20
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Essential Advanced Guide for Vibe Designing in Figma
£19.23
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Canva for Beginners
£14.41
Independently Published Chalk Art for Beginners
£12.29
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Guía del usuario de TinkerCAD
£13.98
John Converse ABCs of Design Print
£16.02
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Small Presses in the Rocky Mountain West
£30.35
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Magic of MinaLima
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£37.50
Addison-Wesley Professional Computers Typesetting Volume B
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£999.99
Pearson Education Computers Typesetting Volume C
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£44.49
MIT Press Ltd The Typographic Medium History and Foundations of
Book SynopsisAn innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media.Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we fail to see type. In this book, Kate Brideau considers typography not as part of print media or digital media but as a medium of communication itself, able to transcend the life and death of particular technologies. Examining the contradiction between typographic form (often overlooked) and function (often overpowering), Brideau argues that typography is made up not of letters but of shapes, and that shape is existentially and technologically central to the typographic medium.After considering what constitutes typographic form, Brideau turns to typographic function and how it relates to form. Examining typography's role in both the neurological and psychological aspects of reading, she argues that typography's functions exceed reading; typographic forms communicate, but that commun
£40.85
Thames & Hudson Ltd Jan Tschichold Master Typographer
Book SynopsisFew have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold, one of the most outstanding and influential designers of the 20th century. This volume covers Tschichold's life and career, placing the designers vision firmly in the rich cultural and historical context of his era.Trade Review'Enormous, beautiful …' - IconTable of ContentsIntroduction by Cees W. de Jong • Tschichold and Die Neue Typographie by Alston W. Purvis • Jan Tschichold and Poster Design by Martijn F. le Coultre • Resurgence of Classical Design by Richard B. Doubleday Perfectly Legible and Readable by Hans Reichardt & Cees W. de Jong
£31.96
Thames & Hudson Ltd Typorama
Book SynopsisThe author's design career began in 1985 at the Musee dOrsay when he designed the poster for the Museums first exhibition, Chicago, Birth of a Metropolis. This book surveys and explores the entirety of his graphic design process and philosophy.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Jean-Jacques Aillagon • Signs of Life: Alice Morgaine • A is for Apeloig: Ellen Lupton • Museum Work • Performing Arts • Publishing and Printing • Typographic Posters • Visual Identities • Sketches
£999.99
Saqi Books Khatt
Book SynopsisA colourful and beautifully produced volume, documenting calligraphic expressions found in cities across Egypt.Trade Review`A sumptuous guide to a phenomenon that is simultaneously popular and increasingly under threat.' The National, UAE; - `A treasure of a volume' Egyptian Streets
£20.00
Presentation House Gallery Fiona Banner Font Book Lynn Valley No 11
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£23.75
GraphicDesign& Page 1 Great Expectations Seventy Graphic
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£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Advanced Typography
Book SynopsisOnce you have learnt the fundamentals of typography, there is still a wealth of knowledge to grasp to really become a master in the art and craft of working with type. In Advanced Typography, expert practitioner and instructor Richard Hunt goes beyond the basics to take your understanding and usage to the next level. Taking a practical approach, the book combines visual, linguistic, historical and psychological systems with the broad range of applications and audiences of type today. From the challenges of designing across media and cultures, to type as information and craft, Hunt marries theoretical context with applied examples so you feel confident in improving your skills as an advanced typographer.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The changing technology and practice of type 3. Typography - art or craft? 4. Biological and psychological dimensions of type 5. Systems of organization 6. Typography as visual/type as information 7. Type as technology 8. Type on screen (design practice) 9. Type as culture and symbol 10. Typefaces 11. Customizing/creating type forms
£29.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Giving Type Meaning
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Chapter 1: Social Context 1.1 Context and meaning 1.a. Visual Inflection 1.b. Social Meaning & Typography 1.c. Visual Metaphors and Analogies 1.d. Cultural Context 1.e Power Structures 1.f Recontextualization Chapter 2: Spatial Context 2.1. Visual Space (section) 2.1a Kinetic and Expressive Type 2.1b. Sound, Shape, and Speech 2.2. Concrete and Visual Poetry 2.2a. Physical Space 2.2b. Material Meaning 2.2c. A Known Social Context 2.2d. History and Material Meanings 2.2e. Material Metaphors and Analogies 2.3 Architectural Materials 2.3a. Public Space 2.3b. Place-Based Meaning 2.4b. Public Type & Community Participations 2.5 Private Space 2.5a Challenging Private Space 2.6 Personal Space 2.6a Apparel and Affiliation 2.6b Proximity and Politics 2.7 Virtual Space 2.7a Digital Methods 2.7b Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Virtual Reality 2.8 Gestural Space 2.8a The Human Hand 2.8b Gesture in and of Letterforms 2.8c Gesture of Mark 2.8d Gesture and Expression 2.8e Corporeality and Performance Chapter 3: Temporal Context 3.1. Time and history 3.1a Temporal Influence: Technology and Society 3.1b Temporal Influence: Current Events 3.2 Typographic Trends 3.2a. Historical Type in Contemporary Use 3.2b. Revivals and References 3.2c. Temporal Recontextualisations 3.2d. History-Inspired Type 3.3 Voices in Design 3.3a Type and Identity 3.4 Time as Medium 3.5 Into the Future 3.6 Language, Form and Meaning 3.7 Speculative Typography 3.8 What's Next? Resources for Educators and Students Bibliography Index Acknowledgements
£71.25
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Bloomsbury Handbook of Global Typography
Book SynopsisPaul Luna is Emeritus Professor at the University of Reading, UK, and author of Typography: A Very Short Introduction (2018). He has written on the relationship between typography and lexicography, and for many years directed the design of English and bilingual dictionaries at Oxford University Press.Fiona Ross is Professor in Type Design at the University of Reading, UK. With a background in languages and Indian palaeography, she specializes in type design for Arabic, South Asian, and Thai writing systems. Fiona has received the SoTA Typography Award (2014) and the Type Director's Club Medal (2018).Aaris Sherin is an educator, writer, and designer. She is Professor of Graphic Design at St John's University, New York, USA, and the author of Sustainable Thinking (Bloomsbury, 2017) and Introduction to Graphic Design (Bloomsbury, 2017).Vaibhav Singh is an independent researcher, typographer, and type designer. Previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and chairman of the Printing Historical Society, he is the editor of the journal Contextual Alternate and co-editor of the Bloomsbury research series Notes on Typography.Sue Walker is co-director of the interdisciplinary Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, and director of the Lettering, Printing, and Graphic Design Collections in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, UK. Her research interests are in book design for young people and the relationship between typography and language.
£999.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Typography
Book SynopsisGavin Ambrose teaches at the University of Brighton and is a practicing designer as well as an author. Paul Harris is a freelance writer and editor whose work appears extensively in magazines and journals in the US and UK. .Trade ReviewTypography is a thorough, well-organised and engaging book, which guides the reader through practical, contextual and theoretical issues and considerations associated with typographic design and use. The structure, content and format of the book lends itself perfectly as a core text for any Graphic Design degree. * Simon Harrison, Leeds College of Art, UK *Beautiful examples! I like how the content is organized and presented... This is a good book for an intro typography course. * Robert Hankin, Bellevue University, USA *Pitched at the right level of engagement and learning for intended audience. Very well resourced and comprehensive. Design looks fresh and inviting. * Manny Ling, University of Sunderland, UK *Flipping through the pages, its design is dynamic, bold, attractive and enticing to read. * Safoura Rafeizadeh, Boston University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 A Brief History of Typography The evolution of type/Theory and principles 2 Looking at Type Where type is used/What is type?/Typefaces and fonts/ Typeface style/Italic or oblique?/Looking at a typeface/ Typeface anatomy/x-height/Absolute and relative measurements Industry view: TOKY 3 Type Classification Basic classifications/Block typefaces/Roman typefaces/Roman variations/Types of serifs/ Serif variations/Gothic typefaces/Gothic variations/Rounded variations/ Script typefaces/Graphic typefaces/Type classification for a digital age/ Industry view: Urban Influence 4 Choosing Type Navigating the sea of type/Type families/Using multiple typefaces/ Text hierarchy/Text hierarchy for the digital age/Type on a page/Numerals/ Drop and standing capitals/Special characters/Ligatures/ The right character for the job/Non-alphabetical typefaces/ Industry view: Triboro Design 5 Setting Type Leading/Tracking/Kerning/Spacing/ Overprinting and knocking out/ Legibility and readability Industry view: Designbolaget 6 Type Generation Hand-drawn type/Building letterforms/Font generation/ Dynamic type for the screen Industry view: Leftloft 7 Type Realization Materials/Printing techniques/Print finishing Industry view: Graphical House Exercises Glossary Acknowledgements and credits Index
£22.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Fundamentals of Typography
Book SynopsisDemonstrating the power and variety of typography from hand-drawn to kinetic, this fully updated new edition of The Fundamentals of Typography covers the principles of using type across a range of media. Starting with a comprehensive introduction to the history of typography, the authors provide detailed explanations and inspirational examples of type usage from leading practitioners from around the world. With expanded practice exercises and four new case studies, this book gives students everything they need to know to use type effectively and creatively.Trade ReviewAs a design teacher and typeface designer I’ve come across many great books on Typography. The Fundamentals of Typography is definitely among them, but it takes a step beyond. It covers in one book what I’d typically need many for. It has all the essential content for a basic type course while offering a wealth of information for advanced learners. It is rich in history and spans many cultures and alphabets. Learners can connect with the subject and gain contextual awareness through case studies, examples, and exercises with well-structured methods. I’m thrilled to find comprehensive information on optical, technical, and ethical dimensions all in one place. It’s a must-have for any student and designer's bookshelf -- Donald Tarallo, Graphic Designer for Tarallo Design and Associate Professor at Fitchburg State University, USAThe Fundamentals of Typography approaches the subject in such a way that the book can be used for a student just getting introduced to the idea of typography, yet has enough depth for the more advanced student. The unique typographic examples, combined with exercises at the end of the chapter that I actually want to assign to my students, makes this book my choice for the classroom. The new edition's updated interview-based case studies present contemporary cases that are inspiration for class projects. -- Brytton Bjorngaard, Director of Visual Arts and Associate Professor of Digital Media, University of Illinois Springfield, USAIt is exciting to see examples of type that often do not appear in books on typography. -- Joe Gilmore, Teaching Fellow in Graphic Design, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Type and Language The alphabet/Early printing/1800s/The Arts and Crafts movement/The early 20th century/1950s/ 1960s/ 1970s/1980s/1990s/2000s/graphic design today/Case study/Typography task 2 A Few Basics Typefaces and fonts/Typeface anatomy/Relative and absolute measurements/X-height/Basic terminology/Majuscule and minuscule/Set width/The baseline grid/The golden section/The Fibonacci sequence/ Dividing the page/Standard paper sizes/The page--how we read/Case study/Typography task 3 Letterforms Type families/Typeweight variations/Frutiger's grid/Types of serif/Fractions/Superscript and subscript/Numerals/ Diacritical marks/Punctuation/Drop and standing capitals/Dashes/Character spacing/Expert sets and special characters/Small capitals/Ligatures, diphthongs and sans serif logotypes/Italic and oblique/ Type classification systems/newspaper text faces/Hand-drawn type/Case study/Typography task 4 Words and Paragraphs Calculating line lengths/Kerning/Automated kerning tables/Alignment/Word spacing, hyphenation and justification/ Type detailing/Leading/Indents/Indexes/Case study/Typography task 5 Using Type Hierarchy/Color/Surprint, overprint, knockout and reverse/Printing and type realization/Grids and fonts/Generating type/Legibility and readability/Texture/Type as image/Concrete poetry, typograms, trompe l'oeil and calligrams/Humor/Vernacular/Appropriation/Ownership/Case study/Typography task 6 Digital Type Vectors and rasters/Type on screen/Kinetic typography/Environmental typography/Case study/Typography task Glossary Contacts Index
£28.99
Edinburgh University Press The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West
Book SynopsisExplores the aesthetic dimensions, cultural significance and ideological power of Maghrib? manuscripts
£103.50
V & A Publishing Western Illuminated Manuscripts: Manuscripts in
Book SynopsisThis catalogue of illuminated manuscripts in the V&A's National Art Library provides a history of an art form over eight centuries. It documents not only the practice of medieval and Renaissance illumination, but also the survival of medieval book-making crafts alongside printing in the post-Renaissance period -and their revival in the nineteenth-century. Its three volumes bring together for the first time works such as the St Denis Missal of 1350 and the Chambord Missal of 1844, the Sanvito Petrarch of 1463-64 and William Morris's Book of Verse of 1870. Catalogue descriptions discuss in detail each work, and pay particular attention to the changing ways in which they have been evaluated and used through the centuries.
£225.00
SelfMadeHero The ABC of Typography
Book SynopsisTypography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, product packaging and political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the point of mundanity. But while the typeface might be secondary to the message, it remains crucial to the way we respond. Fonts spark emotions; they evoke eras and ideologies. Some, like Edward Johnson’s for the London Underground, have become iconic. Others, like comic sans, are loathed. Each one has its own place in history. The ABC of Typography traces 3,500 years of type, from Sumerian pictographs, through Roman calligraphy, to Gutenberg, the Bauhaus and beyond. Brimming with insight and anecdote, this witty and well-informed graphic guide explores the historical, technological and cultural shifts that have defined the look of the words we read, as well as introducing the artists who have marked typography’s long history.
£13.49
Design For Today Printer's ABC
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£12.95
Niggli Verlag The Typographic Grid
Book SynopsisThe typograhic grid is a child of constructive art. This book offers a collection of about two dozen typographic works of the author including books, brochures and art catalogues. The works, documented in schematic drawings and many individual illustrations, are not meant to be recipes; instead, they should provide the reader with impulses of how he himself can set design processes in motion from the outset. The many-sidedness of design with grid systems should be made manifest.
£39.96
Niggli Verlag Overlap: Web & Typography
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£17.95
Niggli Verlag A Gallery in Type Cases: The Arno Stolz
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£31.96
Sorry Press New Aesthetic 2: A Collection of Experimental and
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£27.00
Skira Scripts and Calligraphy (Arabic edition): Path to
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£31.50
Shs Publishing Type Compass: Charting New Routes in Typography
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£15.15
BIS Publishers B.V. Never Use More Than Two Different Typefaces: And
Book SynopsisRules in typography--a joy for graphic designers and everyone who has anything to do with designing texts.
£12.34
BIS Publishers B.V. LOIS Logos: How to Brand with Big Idea Logos
Book SynopsisGeorge Lois is an American icon in graphic design. This book showcases his logos with his own comments on why they work. A bonus in the book is a chapter of world logos made by others with George Lois’s comments on why they are so good. George Lois continues to prove that a memorable brand name interacting with a strong visual symbol to communicate a humanistic idea is the ultimate art form in popular graphic communication. His Big Idea branding and logo design, developed with a built-in, conceptual, “catchy” brand name, can visually impart information in a nanosecond, delivering a specific ethos with a penetrating promise of power that immediately sears a product’s virtues into a viewers’ brain—and has the potential of bringing instantaneous success. Lois boldly states, “My goal, with the vast majority of the brands I have named and logos I have designed, is to create ‘humanistic’ symbols, driven by a pregnant idea, visualizing some recognizable aspect of the human experience, and magically relating it to a unique selling proposition that empowers great advertising and promotion.” If anyone wants to experience the creation of Big Idea Branding, this astounding compilation of the work of George Lois is the ultimate form of clear, precise, eye-popping communication.
£21.24
BIS Publishers B.V. Free your Mind Postcard Block
Book SynopsisWhen times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it through the pain. The problem with advice in general is that we often don’t take it. The great thing about advice songs is that you can kick back and listen to someone else coach you through a tough situation while rocking out at the same time. Marcus Kraft’s bestsellers Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow and Don’t Talk Just Kiss struck a chord with music lovers. This sparked the idea for the Get off the Internet Postcard Block. In the footsteps of this popular postcard block, we present a new collection of postcards, using the same iconic design as the books. They contain the best advice from the most iconic pop songs. Surprise your friends or family with one of the 20 pieces of advice collected in these postcard blocks.
£8.80
SendPoints Publishing Co., Ltd BranD No.76
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£18.95
Victionary HANDSTYLE LETTERING: 20th Anniversary Edition:
Book SynopsisFor some time in the distant past, hand-lettering used to be a highly-regarded skill to master and was ubiquitous via publications and public signages. Although society relies heavily on keyboards and screens for communication today, a growing number of creative practitioners have been busy reviving the seemingly-lost art in recent years, in a bid to return the sincerity and warmth of the human touch to our predominantly digital lives. Brimming with character, hand-lettering serves as the bridge between old-school calligraphy and modern typography to bring nuance back into an age of uniformity. As an update of the original release in 2017, the ‘Handstyle Lettering’ 2021 edition rereleased in conjunction with Victionary’s 20th anniversary is a delightful showcase of artwork from around the world that are anything but unvaried. With an additional selection of new projects, the book also features insightful interviews from the best calligraphers as well as an expanded, beginner-friendly guide/practice area.
£24.00
Getty Trust Publications The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold A Study of a
Book SynopsisIn January 1469, the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy (reigned 1467-77) record a payment to the noted scribe Nicolas Spierinc 'for having written...some prayers for my lord.' This study presents an argument suggesting that the documents refer to the exquisite prayer book of Charles the Bold.
£47.50
