readings

Readings must be completed before the class in which they are due. There will be open-book quizzes on the readings. You are encouraged to explore the typography resources in the Montserrat library.

texts

Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style.
Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks.
ISBN 0-88179-132-6 2nd ed., 2002
ISBN 0-88179-206-3 3rd ed., 2004, forthcoming.

Weinmann, Elaine. QuarkXPress 6.
Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2004. ISBN 0-321-20548-0.

Cohen, Sandee. InDesign CS.
Berkeley, CA: Peachpit Press, 2004. ISBN 0-321-21348-3.

handouts

Dowding, Geoffrey. Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type.
Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks, 1995.

Gill, Eric. An Essay on Typography.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1988.

Tschichold, Jan. The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design.
Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks, 1991.

Hochuli, Jost, and Robin Kinross. Designing books: practice and theory.
London: Hyphen Press, 1996.

Hendel, Richard. On Book Design. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

library shelves Z 116 - Z 253

Author:         Gill, Eric.
Title:          An essay on typography
Description:    Boston : D.R. Godine, 1988.
MONTSERRAT:     Z116 .A3 .G54                      
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Author:         Tschichold, Jan.
Title:          The new typography :
Subtitle:       a handbook for modern designers
Description:    Berkeley : University of California Press, 1995.
MONTSERRAT:     Z116 .T7513                    
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Author:         Hendel, Richard
Title:          On book design
MONTSERRAT      Z116 .A3 .H46
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Author:         Pierpont Morgan Library.
Title:          Art of the printed book, 1455-1955;
Subtitle:       masterpieces of typography through five centuries
Description:    New York, 1973.
MONTSERRAT:     Z121 .P58                               
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Author:         Chappell & Bringhurst.
Title:          A short history of the printed word
Description:    Point Roberts, WA : Hartley & Marks, 1998.
MONTSERRAT:     Z124 .C47
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Author:         Blumenthal, Joseph.
Title:          The printed book in America
MONTSERRAT:     Z208 .B56
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Author:         McLean, Ruari.
Title:          Jan Tschichold :
Subtitle:       a life in typography
Description:    London : Lund Humphries Publishers, 1997.
MONTSERRAT:     Z232 .T863 .M29                     
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Author:         Biggs, John.
Title:          Basic typography
Description:    New York : Watson-Guptill, 1968
MONTSERRAT:     Z244 .B5
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Author:         McLean, Ruari.
Title:          The Thames and Hudson manual of typography
Description:    New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1980.
MONTSERRAT:     Z244.3 .M45                               
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Author:         Jury, David.
Title:          About face :
Subtitle:       reviving the rules of typography
Description:    Mies, Switzerland : Rotovision, 2002.
MONTSERRAT:     Z246 .J84
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Author:         Carter, Sebastian.
Title:          Twentieth century type designers
Description:    New York : Taplinger, 1987.
MONTSERRAT:     Z250 .A2 .C3                              
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Author:         Morison, Stanley.
Title:          Letter forms, typographic and scriptorial :
Subtitle:       two essays on their classification, history, and ...
Description:    Point Roberts, WA : Hartley & Marks Publishers, 1997.  
MONTSERRAT:     Z250 .A2 .M6925                     
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Author:         Lawson, Alexander S.
Title:          Printing types;
Subtitle:       an introduction
Description:    Boston, MA : Beacon Press, 1971.
MONTSERRAT:     Z250 .L35                     
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Author:         Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941.
Title:          Printing types, their history, forms, and use;
Subtitle:       a study in survivals.
Description:    Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, 1962.
MONTSERRAT:     Z250 .A2 .U6                  
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Author:         Fenton, Erfert.
Title:          The Macintosh font book
Description:    Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press, 1989.
MONTSERRAT:     Z250.7 .Z46                   
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Author:         Carter, Rob.
Title:          Typographic design :
Subtitle:       form and communication
Description:    New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985.
MONTSERRAT:     Z253 .C32                     
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Author:         Clair, Kate.
Title:          A typographic workbook
MONTSERRAT:     Z253 .C59 1999
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Author:         Dowding, Geoffrey.
Title:          Finer points in the spacing & arrangement of type
Description:    Point Roberts, WA : Hartley & Marks, 1995.
MONTSERRAT:     Z253 .D69