Typography

[Grinner Hester]

books on what looks good have always been odd to me.
I’m not much of a rader but if ya do a quick search for typography books I’m sure you’ll find many dudes who will tell ya how they’d do it. I’ll tell ya to step back and make it look nice. Each project has it’s own ersonality and your typograpy will always follow and/or enhance that personality. A book can’t tell ya what flavor to apply. It’ll talk about font selection, sizes and kerning. Stuff you could do quicker by doing it than by reading about it. It’s subjective. Such is art.

[Aaron Williams]

i’ve mostly learned by reading typography/webdesign blogs like https://daringfireball.net (just do a search for font, typography or design) or https://typographica.org. holding back from the crazy font’s is usually a good idea unless your project really calls for one.

good places to start:

classic sans-serif fonts to stick with are helvetica (a giant in the font world), gill sans (a classic british font) futura, monaco, and maybe arial (an inferior helvetica knockoff, but can be a substitute)

for serif fonts, times, bodoni, baskerville, courier, and especially garamond are good places to start.

for distressed, script, symbol, etc. fonts, just make sure that it is readable, and pick what fits your design best.

never, ever, ever use comic sans or marker felt. ever.

[Rich Rubasch]

A quick search on Amazon.com for Typography came up with a bunc of pretty good selections.

Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media