Typography Resources

This page lists some of the most important books and articles about typography.

• “Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering” by Edward Johnston
• “Modern Typography” by Robin Kinross
• “Anatomy of a Typeface” by Alexander Lawson
• “The Nymph and the Grot: the revival of the sanserif letter” by James Mosley
• “The stroke of the pen: fundamental aspects of western writing” by Gerrit Noordzij
• “Syntax-Antiqua, a sanserif on a new basis” by Erik Schulz-Anker
• “Hans Eduard Meier’s Syntax-Antiqua” by Sumner Stone
• “The Stone family of typefaces” by Sumner Stone
• “Letters of credit: a view of type design” by Walter Tracy
• “The types of Jan van Krimpen” by Walter Tracy