Typography & Lettering

In this reflective autobiography, Rosemary Sassoon, a leading expert on handwriting and typography, looks back on her long and varied career, payin...

Drawing on a millennia of calligraphy theory and history, Brushed in Light examines how the brushed word appears in films and in film cultures of K...

“A book to spend a year with … Dwiggins did more to promote, diversify, and integrate the graphic, typographic, and printing-arts disciplines than ...

Few have left a deeper impression on the world of typography than Jan Tschichold (1902–74), one of the most outstanding and influential designers o...

Fall in love with copperplate calligraphy and other pointed pen scripts while expanding your creative repertoire with this practical easy-to-follow...

Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern period? In his groundbreaking essay "The Work of A...

Early in this century, Futurist and Dada artists developed brilliantly innovative uses of typography that blurred the boundaries between visual art...

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the art of calligraphy in Hebrew, from the Sacred Scrolls to modern Hebrew graffiti. Calligrapher and scri...

The development of the first city-specific typefaceCan a typeface communicate the unique character of a city? This is the question the University o...

Specimens of 38 of the finest type families in the world are brought together in Typographic Specimens: The Great Typefaces, making it an invaluabl...

This is a well designed type specimen book displaying samples of type that was available from V&M Typographic in the 1970s. The displays are of...

“To have the preeminent graphic designer in America—the leading proponent of the Modern—intelligently and forcefully speak out makes this a documen...

This book is a single-source guide to planning, designing and printing successful projects using the Adobe Creative Suite. Packed with real-world d...

This book is a critical appraisal of Eric Gill's inscriptional designs, paying particular attention to the early developments of his letter forms. ...

Lavishly illustrated with more than 450 images, A Typographic Workbook, Second Edition explains the process successful designers use to select, spa...

Did the invention of movable type change the way that the word was perceived in the early modern period? In his groundbreaking essay "The Work of A...

For the first time since its invention over 500 years ago, the print medium is being challenged as the primary means of recording and communicating...