Book2013
Practical Typography
Matthew Butterick
Argues that typography is a form of applied rhetoric anyone can learn, and reduces the whole discipline to a short list of concrete, checkable rules rather than aesthetic taste.
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Foundations & Overviews
A topic within Typography, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Design.
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Typographia: An Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Art of Printing
Thomas Curson Hansard
Surveys the whole practice and history of printing and type founding to argue that sound typography rests on craft traditions passed down through the trade rather than on individual invention.
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