Typography books

This is one of a series of reading lists I put together between 2002 and 2004 when I was starting out in interaction and experience design, building out a personal canon from books I was buying, borrowing from libraries, or lending to students. The lists are grouped by topic. This one is on typography, the deepest and oldest of the design disciplines, and still the one most interaction designers would benefit from reading into properly.
Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style is the canonical reference. Robin Kinross’s Unjustified Text and his book on Karel Martens are the most useful English-language writing on typography as a critical practice. Spiekermann’s Stop Stealing Sheep is where to start if you’ve never thought about typefaces. Fred Smeijers’s Counterpunch is the book on punchcutting, the craft under the craft.
The Amazon links below are what I had at the time, most will be dead now, but the ISBNs will find you a copy.

Type and Typography

Phil Baines.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Signs: Lettering in the Environment

Phil Baines, Catherine Dixon.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

A View of Early Typography

Harry Carter.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Unjustified Text: Perspectives on Typography

Robin Kinross.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Karel Martens: Printed Matter / Drukwerk

Robin Kinross, Karel Martens, Jaap van Triest.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Counterpunch

Fred Smeijers.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Stop Stealing Sheep

Erik Spiekermann, E.M. Ginger.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Basic Typography

James Craig.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Typo – When, Who, How

F Friedl.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Typographic Design

Rob Carter, Philip B Meggs, Ben Day.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Typographica

Rick Poynor.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Dimensional Typography: Words in Space

J. Abbott Miller.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Fuck Off Typography

Gerard Saint.
amazon.co.uk / amazon.com

Typography

Wolfgang Weingart.
Magma Books / Niggli / UK booksearch

Typography

Friedl, Ott, Stein.
Magma Books / Niggli / UK booksearch

Basic Typography: Design With Letters

Ruedi Ruegg.
Magma Books / Niggli / UK booksearch

Typography: Macro + Micro Aesthetics

Willi Kunz.
Magma Books / Niggli / UK booksearch