Articles
10 Principles That May Make Your Work Better Or May Make It Worse
— Frank Chimero 2010
My type design philosophy
— Martin Majoor 2005
An Introduction to OpenType Substitution Features
— Martin Wenzel and Christoph Koeberlin 2010
Case study: Randomness vs Cleverness. Notes on programming OpenType feature
— Underware 2010
— Thinking with type website by Ellen Lupton with tons of resources
—Texts on Graphic Design and Typography varius articles and essays on Typotheque.com
— Thoughts on Design, a collection of articles written by Paul Rand, interviews, videos and exhibits information.
— Academic resources (articles, essays, movies and more) from the Type Culture website
— A selection of essays from/on Emigre and on type and typography on emigre.com
— Typography theory on-line by Ellen Lupton's Thinking with type and Erik Spiekermann's Explorations in typography.
Utilities for type designers
— Type Basics by Underware
— Gray313 typographic design & theories is a nice reference for basic type design.
— adhesiontext, a dynamic text tool created by Miguel Sousa
—Just another text generator with kerning pairs.
—TextMod by Ondrej Job, very useful, it takes out the glyphs you don't have from a real text.
— Sketch type with TypeCooker, a tool for generating type-drawing exercises by Erik van Blokland (LettError.com) used at the Type and Media MA at KABK, The Hague.
— A diacritics guide by Czech magazine Typo.
Book bibliography
— Ellen Lupton
Thinking with type, Princeton Architectural Press, 2004.
—Robert Bringhurst
The elements of Typographic Style
Gli elementi dello stile tipografico, Sylvestre Bonnard, 2001
— Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam
Type & typography, Lawrence King, 2002
— Erik Spiekermann
Stop stealing sheep and find out how type works, Adobe Press, 2003.
— Gerrit Noordzij
The Stroke: Theory of Writing, Hyphen Press, 2006.
Il tratto. Teoria della scrittura. Sylvestre Bonnard, 2007.
— Fred Smeijers
Type now: a manifesto, plus work so far. Hyphen Press, 2003.
Counterpunch, Hyphen press, 1998
— Walter Tracy
Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design. David R. Godine, 1987
— Martin Majoor & Sébastien Morlighem
José Mendoza y Almeida, Ypsilon Èditeur, 2010.
— James Mosley
Radici della scrittura moderna, Stampa Alternativa & Graffiti, 1999
— Robin Kinross
Modern Typography, Hyphen Press
Tipografia moderna — saggio di storia critica, Stampa alternativa e Graffiti, 2005
— Ivana Tubaro
Delle Lettere, Hoepli, Milano, 2008
— Bruce Willen, Nolen Strals, Ellen Lupton
Lettering and Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces, Princeton Architectural press, 2009
— John Berger
Ways of Seeing, Penguin, 1990
— Per Mollerup
Marks of Excellence: History and Taxonomy of Trademarks, Phaidon Press Ltd, 2009
— Michael Evamy
Logo, Laurence King, 2007
— Janet Conrad
Unimark International: The Design of Business and the Business of Design, Lars Muller Publishers, 2009
— Michael Mitchell, Susan Wightman
Book typography, a designer’s manual, Libanus Press, 2005.
— Jost Hochuli
Designing Books: Practice and Theory
— Josef Muller-Brockmann
Grid Systems in Graphic Design/Raster Systeme Fur Die Visuele Gestaltung