From OFLB

Here is a list of books we recommended reading that describe fonts, type design and related matters:

• "Computers and typography 1 and 2" by Rosemary Sassoo
• "Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century; designing typefaces now" by Fred Smeijers
• "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst
• "Fonts & Encodings" by Yannis Haralambous (translation by P. Scott Horne, "Fontes et codages" is the French original)
• "Letters of credit: a view of type design" by Walter Tracy (old time head of Linotype's drawing office)
• "Modern Typography" by Robin Kinross
• "The stroke: theory of writing of the pen" by Gerritt Noordzij
• "Thinking with type" by Ellen Lupton
• "Texts on type: critical writings on typography" by Steven Heller and Philip Meggs
• "CJKV Explained"

Cyrillic

• "Language Culture Type: international type design in the age of Unicode" edited by John D. Berry, designed by Maxim Zhukov, and published by Graphis - good essays on complex scripts including Cyrillic
• Yuri Gordon wrote an excellent book on type design for the Cyrillic script
• The first edition of "Typography Papers" published by the University of Reading's Department of Typography.
• Paratype's "Digital Typefaces" Catalogue

External Links

• http://www.typebooks.org/
• http://www.owlsoup.com/foamtrain/books.html
• http://www.mccannas.com/recommend/type.htm
• http://www.uitgeverijdebuitenkant.nl/grafisch_ontwerpen/

Also check out the Knowledge Resources page with lots of links to other texts on the web...