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Introductory Resources to Fonts for Developers

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O’Reilly book author Jason Pamental sat down with us during Codementor design office hours and answered our viewers’ questions about some great introductory resources about fonts.

Question:  Do you know of any resources that you recommend that are introductory to fonts?  I’ve been more like a developer, but doing more work on front end, and a decision is coming up in the future about design.

Jason:  Yeah, so, Robert Bringhurst’s Elements of Typographic Style is a fantastic book.

 

That may be a little bit off the path for what you need in the shorter term.

It’s still a great reference, but another one that you might want to look at is Thinking With Type by Ellen Lupton.

There’s a new edition that just came out, and that’s a fantastic book.  It’s used as a textbook in a ton of graphic design programs, and it’s really, really well-written  She also wrote one recently for type on screen, so looking at her books is a really great resource.

Jason Santa Maria is another fantastic designer who has a book coming out soon called On Web Typography from A Book Apart.

 We’ve actually gone back and forth a little bit about our books.  I have a little bit more of a technical approach in mine.  I spend a lot more time focusing on the implementation, and he focuses a little more on aesthetics, so his might be a really great example.  But that’s not out yet, so I don’t know for sure, but he’s a pretty amazing designer and he’s a great writer, so I can only imagine it’s probably going to be really, really good.


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