Typography / Type Design Resources
A compiled list by Namrata Goyal
Books
1. The Stroke – Gerrit Noordzij (available through Typotheque)
2. Designing Type – Karen Cheng
3. Type Tricks – Sofie Beier
4. Inside Paragraphs – Cyrus Highsmith
5. Shaping text – Jan Middendorp
6. Detail in Typography – Jost Hochuli
7. Modern Typography – Robin Kinross
8. Counterpunch – Fred Smeijers
9. Type Now – Fred Smeijers
10. The Elements of Typographic Style – Robert Bringhurst
11. A Theory of Type Design – Gerard Unger
12. How to Create Typefaces: From sketch to screen –
Cristóbal Henestrosa, Laura Meseguer, José Scaglione
13. Letters of Credit: Walter Tracy
14. Trinié and Lexicon – Bram de Does (available through Typotheque)
15. Dutch Type – Jan Middendorp (available through Typotheque)
16. Products of a Thinking Hand – KABK (Documentation of the work of Cyrus Highsmith)
17. Size specific adjustments to type designs – Just Another Foundry
18. House Industries, Process is the inspiration
Bonus, if you are interested in Lettering;
1. The Golden Secrets of Lettering – Martina Flor
2. In Progress – Jessica Hische
3. House Industries, Letter Manual – Ken Barber
Some more books: (mentions on Typelab Asia stream)
1. The Book – Keith Houston
2. Designing Books – Jost Hochuli
3. The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design – Jan Tschichold
4. Asymmetric Typography – Jan Tschichold
5. A Series of Unfortunate Events – Lemony Snicket
6. František Muzika - Krásné písmo 1, 2 (Czech design)
7. Typographia 1, 2, 3 by Oldřich Hlavsa (Czech Graphic design and Typography)
Indic type – related books and resources
- The Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India – Akshaya Mukul
- Founts of Knowledge Edited – Abhijeet Gupta and Swapan Chakrovarty
- Copper plate inscription from Karnataka - Museum Copy - Dr. M.s Nagaraja Rao
- Indian Epigraphy and South Indian Scripts - C Sivaramamurti
- A list of Devanagari resources compiled by Mota Itallic / Rob Keller, Kimya Gandhi. https://www.motaitalic.com/info/type-design-resources/devanagari-type-resources/
Websites
1. A brilliant sketching tool for type: http://typecooker.com/#
2. https://typographica.org/
3. https://ilovetypography.com/
4. https://www.typotheque.com/articles
5. http://oa.letterformarchive.org/
6. https://fontsinuse.com/
7. http://corporate-typeface.com/
8. Archivio Tipograpfico
9. Typographica: Type Reviews, Books, Commentary
10. Alphabettes: Commentary by Women in Type
Video streams / articles : Online lectures and conference presentations
- https://vimeo.com/coopertype
- https://vimeo.com/robothon
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjKXDLrb6mrftD1NW-r4l5w
- History of Letterforms, Lynne Yun: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcNA74tz9QNL45RbC3iKtcQKXg1bi_EAE
- A Useful Guide to Bad Type by Erik Van Blokland
- Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton
- History of the Western European Alphabet by Judy Ross
- Multiscriptual Typesetting by Beatriz Lozano
- On Type Classifications by Indra Kupferschmid
- Bézier Curves and Type Design by Fábio Duarte Martins
- Glyphs Essential Training by Charles Nix
- Glyphs App Tutorial Posts
Online classes/courses to explore
1. (For lettering) Martina Flor:
https://www.martinaflor.com/online-classes
(Python, coding etc) Python for Designers by Roberto Arista
http://pythonfordesigners.com/chapters/the-elements-of-a-python-program/(Mentorships) Type Crit Crew : https://www.instagram.com/typecritcrew/
Alphabettes Mentorship Program : http://www.alphabettes.org/about/mentorship/
Women in Type, Bibliogaphy https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a43aUrc6rFwVq6yabOgPZDnVS6md41MDrizhRmpUcoI/edit