By Type Tasting/Sarah Hyndman
Why Fonts Matter by Sarah Hyndman (Penguin/Random House 2016)
Stories about fonts and type
Fifty Typefaces That Changed the World: Design Museum Fifty by John L Walters (Conran)
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield (Profile Books)
Type: The Secret History of Letters by Simon Loxley (I.B. Tauris)
Creative typography
The 3D Type Book by FL@33, Tomi Vollauschek and Agathe Jacquillat (Laurence King)
Typography Sketchbooks by Stephen Heller & Lita Talarico (Thames and Hudson)
Typoholic: Material Types in Design by Viction Workshop (Victionary) (2012-04-12)
Type in the environment
Culture+Typography: How Culture Affects Typography by Nikki Villagomez
The Field Guide to Typography, Typefaces in the Urban Landscape by Peter Dawson (Thames & Hudson)
Sign Painters by Faythe Levine
Practical typography
Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton (Princeton Architectural Press)
Type and Typography by Phil Baines & Andrew Haslam (Watson-Guptill)
Using typography as a graphic designer
Stop Stealing Sheep and find out how type works by Erik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger (Adobe Press)
The Geometry of Type by Stephen Coles (Thames & Hudson)
Typography by Gavin Ambrose & Paul Harris (AVA Publishing)
Science
Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read by Stanislas Dehaene
Websites
The Golden Sans Project documents Australia’s Gold Coast signage
Ghostsigns documents the fading remains of hand-painted wall advertising
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