My Reading List – Typography & Composition Books

My Reading List – Typography & Composition Books

Many of you might say: “Why do I need to read a book about typography when I can find everything I need to know on the Internet?”. Well, from my experience, I can assure you that you won’t get all the valuable info you need online. There is also the question of disseminating the correct and useful information from the inaccurate or incomplete one. And frankly, you can find tons on information on typography online, but at one point you might get overwhelmed and you won’t know how to structure it properly so that you can use it later effectively.

These are just some of the points of view that lead me to say that a book is something palpable, is a great source of beautifully organized correct information, which you can keep next to your desk and consult every time you have a question, you need guidance or inspiration.

Here are the books I would like to read about typography and composition:

The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst

The Elements of Typographic Style

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The New Typography by Jan Tschichold

The New Typography

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Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton

Thinking with Type

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Typographie: A Manual of Design by Emil Ruder

Typographie

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Making and Breaking the Grid: A Graphic Design Layout Workshop by Timothy Samara

Making and Breaking the Grid

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Wolfgang Weingart: My Way to Typography by Wolfgang Weingart

Wolfgang My Way to Typography

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Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Muller-Brockmann

Grid Systems in graphic design

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Graphic Design Manual: Principles and Practice by Armin Hofmann

Graphic Design Manual Principles and Practice

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Typographic Systems of Design by Kimberly Elam

typographic systems

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The Graphic Artist and His Design Problems by Josef Muller-Brockmann

The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems

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Have you already read some of these books? :) Do you have other books to recommend?

1 Comment on “My Reading List – Typography & Composition Books

  1. I just recently finished reading The Elements of Typographic Style and The New Typography. I highly recommend both, but The Elements of Typographic Style is a great read and resource. It’s funny you have Thinking With Type as number three in your list because I was thinking that would be the next typography book that I pick up. I totally agree with you on book reading. You will usually get much more quality information than Googling everything.

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