I've read through the below books in the first list here and enjoyed them all, with The Elements of Typographic Style possibly my favorite. Are there any in the second list that would be considered essential? I'm trying to narrow these down, although I may acquire all of them at some point. Any recommendations are welcome.
Read:
Read:
- Detail In Typography by Jost Hochuli
- Inside Paragraphs: Typographic Fundamentals by Cyrus Highsmith
- Wim Crouwel Alphabets by Kees Broos
- Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs by Tim Ahrens and Shoko Mugikura
- Counterpunch by Fred Smeijers
- The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
- Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton
Unread:
- Shaping Text: Type, Typography and the Reader by Jan Middendorp
- Typographie: A Manual of Design by Emil Ruder
- The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital (Codex Studies in Letterforms) by Paul Shaw
- Designing Type by Karen Cheng
- Typographic Design: Form and Communication by Rob Carter, Ben Day, Philip B. Meggs
- Manuale Typographicum by Hermann Zapf
- The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design by Jan Tschichold
- French Renaissance Printing Types: A Conspectus by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet
- The modification of letterforms by Stanley Hess
- Type Now: A Manifesto by Fred Smeijers
- Anatomy of a Typeface by Alexander S. Lawson
- Adrian Frutiger Typefaces by Heidrun Osterer
- American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century by Mac McGrew
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield
- The New Typography by Jan Tschichold
- Modern Typography by Robin Kinross