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Hot Designers Make Cool Fonts by
Allan Haley
Allan Haley goes to fourteen different type designers
including Matthew Carter, Jonathan Hoefler, Erik Spiekerman,
Carol Twombly, Tobias Frere-Jones and David Berlow to ask each
one of them how they design type.
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 Ray Gun : Out of
Control; Dean Kuipers(Editor), Marvin Scott
Jarrett (Introduction)
Since the publication of its first issue in 1992, Ray
Gun has set the perimeters of the cutting edge in publishing.
Abandoning such conventions as headlines, columns, and even page
numbers, the alternative rock-and-roll magazine created a
chaotic, abstract style that broke all the rules, clearing the
way for a slew of fringe magazines devoted as much to style as to
substance. This self-consciously hip, unconventional approach
soon emerged on album covers, concert posters, and MTV, signaling
the birth of a bona fide movement. The same irreverent approach
to production is applied to Ray Gun: Out of Control, forcing you
to wade through a maze of random graphics and typefaces to
unearth the articles and essays. The search is half the fun,
though, as the pieces are enough to capture your interest, even
against the backdrop of so much graphic noise.
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 Typography
on the Web by Joseph T. Sinclair (book and CD-ROM)
This approachable book helps aspiring Web authors and
design novices learn the nuances of typography on the Web. The
author starts off with an introduction to typography in its
traditional print form, explaining the various typefaces and
fonts and exploring typesetting terms, type teatment, and page
layout. The second part of the book focuses on digital
typography, covering display issues such as resolution and
monitor types; standards such as PostScript and TrueType; and
character sets, Unicode, and OpenType. The guide also offers an
introduction to SGML and XML. (also see
Web Works Typography by Jason Mills, Daniel Donnelly)
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Extreme
Fonts
Jan Tschichold : A
Life in Typography
Paul Renner : The Art
of Typography