Typography, Referenced - A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History, and Practice of Typography

Typography, Referenced is the single most comprehensive volume covering every aspect of typography that any design student, professional designer, or design aficionado needs to know today.
- Thousands of illustrated examples of contemporary usage in design
- Historical developments from Greek lapidary letters to the movie Helvetica
- Landmark designs turning single letters into typefaces
- Definitions of essential type-specific language, terms, ideas, principles, and processes
- Ways technology has influenced and advanced type
- The future of type on the web, mobile devices, tablets, and beyond

Typography, Referenced incorporates all resources for typography and typographic design:
- Institutions offering specialized type education
- Type foundries throughout the world
- Type-specific publications and books
- Online resources and blogs
- Organizations that archive, acknowledge, support, and celebrate typographic achievements
- Institutions that document, curate, collect; and preserve our typographic heritage

In short, Typography, Referenced is the ultimate source of typographic information and inspiration, documenting and chronicling the full scope of essential typographic knowledge and design from the beginnings of moveable type to the present "golden age" of typography.