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The Elements of Typographic Style

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Renowned typographer and poet Robert Bringhurst brings clarity to the art of typography with this masterful style guide. Combining practical, theoretical, and historical, this book is a must for graphic artists, editors, or anyone working with the printed page using digital or traditional methods. Having established itself as a standard in its field The Elements of Typographic Style is house manual at most American university presses, a standard university text, and a reference work in studios of designers around the world. It has been translated into italian greek, and dutch.
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I’ve found this online book great — http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/index.php

Experienced designers always emphasize learning about typography, and which seemed unintuitive to me until I began to study it. Bringhurst is a fantastic place to start there:

http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin...

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Bringhurst's book is advanced and heavy. It's good. But I'd start with 'Thinking with Type'.
I don’t have much for book recommendations, but start off with The Elements of Typographic Style [http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin...] and get a feel for creating usable and readable typography in your apps. http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/ makes a good companion site too.

Graphic design comes down to “the art of organizing” and effectively using five elements: line, shape, space, colour and texture. When searching for fundamental design books I’d look for those that cover how to harness said elements effectively.

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