Graphic Arts - Typography
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Gothic and Old English Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts
$17.95 Add to cartGothic or black-letter script, practiced by many medieval scribes, was a principal model for printer’s type when printing was first invented. Characteristic thick strokes and stress on points and angl… [more below]
- Series: Lettering, Calligraphy, Typography
- Author: Solo, Dan X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0486246957
- Language: English
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Stencil Alphabets
$12.95 Add to cartThis attractive collection of royalty-free lettering for commercial artists features 100 complete upper-case stencil alphabets – many with lower-cases, numerals, and punctuation marks. Includes such c
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: Solo, Dan X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 29, 2012
- ISBN10: 0486256863
- Language: English
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Grunge Alphabets
$12.95 Add to cartOffbeat, eye-catching typefaces include Ransom Note, Kidprint, Fingerpaint, Desert Rat, Crazy Eights, and dozens more: Ninja, Hardscrabble, Everglades, Double Take, Bushman, Bramble, and Aspodistra.
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: Solo, Dan X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: February 29, 2012
- ISBN10: 0486402827
- Language: English
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Modern Calligraphy Bible: 101 Alphabets from Artists Around the World
$34.99 Read moreLanguage, writing, and letters are the basis of our communication as human beings–and calligraphy celebrates the inherent beauty of this need to share and connect. This volume showcases what calligra… [more below]
- Author: Claquin, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0764364154
- Language: English
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Lettres D?coratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
$65.00 Add to cartAn immersive look inside 12 colorful alphabet albums used by 19th- and early 20th-century French sign painters
Beginning in the 19th century, sign painters adorned the streets and storefronts of Frenc
- Author: Come, Morgane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798989142392
- Language: English
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Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape
$85.00 Add to cartWith an interactive cover, 17 pop-ups and hands-on activities throughout, Alphabet in Motion is an immersive introduction unlike any other to the history of typography and letter shapes
Ever wonder how
- Author: Anderson, Kelli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0997175915
- Language: English
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A Queer Year of Love Letters: Alphabets Against Erasure
$24.95 Read moreShowcasing a collection of innovative typeface designs alongside the stories of the countercultural queer figures who inspired them
Published with Library Stack.
This volume, A Queer Year of Love Lett- Author: Pyper, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1941753795
- Language: English
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Back to Font: Behind the Typefaces You Thought You Knew
$25.00 Add to cartCalling all type nerds!
Who were their “parents” and
Get ready for a chatty and opinionated, deeply nerdy history of how 16 of the most famous typefaces were made and why they look the way they do.- Author: Nottingham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1529438705
- Language: English
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Ambigrammia: Between Creation and Discovery
$40.00 Add to cartOn the history and creation of ambigrams, by a pioneer of the practice
“Spellbinding and truly one-of-a-kind. . . . This is an absolute delight.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the 1960s and- Author: Hofstadter, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275439
- Language: English
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Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartWhen Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers’ eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains one
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086203
- Language: English
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Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartSince its improvised creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools pranks and endless int
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086246
- Language: English
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Universal Principles of Typography: 100 Key Concepts for Choosing and Using Type
$40.00 Add to cartExplore 100 key concepts, theories, and guidelines that are critical for choosing and using type.
We communicate with text every single day, but what does it mean to really understand type–to use it- Series: Rockport Universal
- Author: Stocks, Elliot Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0760383383
- Language: English
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Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartAlbertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcrafted typefaces in the world. It is at once modern and t
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 132408622X
- Language: English
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Sans in Use: Creative Typefaces and Their Applications
$65.00 Add to cartIn the world of typography, it is not uncommon to see combinations of serif and sans serif typefaces in the same design. However, it takes skill to combine them in a way to avoid unwanted graphic tens… [more below]
- Author: Viction
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9887684422
- Language: English
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Mid-Century Type: Typography, Graphics, Designers
$55.00 Read moreMid-Century Type is a fascinating visual exploration of how, during the middle decades of the last century, the typographer became an independent, influential contributor to a fast-developing technolo
- Author: Jury, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1858947073
- Language: English
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Theory of Type Design
$50.00 Read more“An assessment of the diversity and creativity of type and how design makes sense of communicating text.” –Typeroom
Theory of Type Design, by internationally renowned Dutch graphic designer and typogra
- Author: Unger, Gerard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 9462084408
- Language: English
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The Hidden Factor: Mark and Gesture in Visual Design
$29.95 Read moreAn exquisitely illustrated introduction to the gestural mark in the designed world, exploring the tension between marks, which are felt, and images and words, which are conceptual.
In The Hidden Facto- Author: Skaggs, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048566
- Language: English
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Mono Is the New Black: Monospace Fontionary
$44.95 Read moreAn indispensable handbook about monospaced typefaces with the relevant cultural-historical background, a variety of convincing applications and extensive typeface collection accompanied by all needed … [more below]
- Author: Steinmüller, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 372121031X
- Language: English
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Sans in Use: Creative Typefaces and Their Applications
$65.00 Add to cartIn the world of typography, it is not uncommon to see combinations of serif and sans serif typefaces in the same design. However, it takes skill to combine them in a way to avoid unwanted graphic tens… [more below]
- Author: Viction
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9887684422
- Language: English
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Serif in Use: Creative Typefaces and Their Applications
$65.00 Add to cartIn the world of typography, it is not uncommon to see combinations of serif and sans serif typefaces in the same design. However, it takes skill to combine them in a way to avoid unwanted graphic tens… [more below]
- Author: Viction
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 9887684430
- Language: English
