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• asolove · Sep 9, 2013 · Recommends

  …appear the same, etc. There are plenty of actual scientific studies and theory behind this. See Ruder's Typography [0] and Hochuli's Detail in typography [1] for more info. [0] http://www.amazon.com/Typographie-Manual-Design-Emil-Ruder/d... [1] http://www.amazon.com/Detail-Typography-Jost-Hochuli/dp/0907...

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• state · Mar 7, 2015 · Recommends

  …encourage you to consider some of these references. I recommend Josef Muller-Brockmann's Grid Systems in Graphic Design: http://www.amazon.com/Grid-Systems-Graphic-Design-Communicat... or Emil Ruder's Typographie: http://www.amazon.com/Typographie-Manual-Design-Emil-Ruder/d.... There are many, many other good resources but those are important primary sources. So is The Elements of Typographic Style, by Robert…

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• msutherl · Dec 2, 2012 · Recommends

  …http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0881792063/ref=as_li_qf_sp_... Thinking with Type is full of contemporary examples to give you new ideas: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568989695/ref=as_li_qf_sp_... Ruder's Typographie is the book that established modern typography and is the de fact guide to modernist typography: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3721200438/ref=as_li_qf_sp_... As an introduction to typography, I also…

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• msutherl · Jan 15, 2013 · Recommends

  …more complex topic, warranting the purchase of a book, and there's more to layout than grids and Swiss-German design. If you want to buy a beautiful multi-lingual design book from that era, Emil Ruder's Typographie is the better buy: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3721200438/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

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• nsfmc · Aug 15, 2010 · Recommends

  …programming as well, c.f. the myth of the genius programmer [motgp]) 5. There are some books you can look at, i would probably recommend the following: Armin Hofmann's Graphic Design Manual, Emil Ruder's Typographie: a manual of design, Josef Mueller-Brockman's Grid Systems in Graphic Design, Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style. Ellen Lupton's Thinking with Type and John Kane's Type Primer are good…

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• nsfmc · Feb 11, 2013 · Recommends

  …Elements of Typographic Style. One good book about "Design Process" is Nancy Skolos & Tom Wedell's Graphic Design Process. No design book suggestion will be complete without mentioning Emil Ruder's Typographie, Josef Muller-Brockman's Grid Systems and Armin Hofmann's Graphic Design Manual. That said, a good starter is layout/formmaking Christian Leborg's "Visual Grammar," part of Princeton Architectural Press'…

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• mrottenkolber · Sep 7, 2014 · Mentions

  I have "Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie". Yeah not much of his work was translated, its sad. Maybe you can find similar/related/inspired authors who wrote or write in english. Its important to note that Tschichold made a U-turn at some point,…

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• db48x · Jan 18, 2021 · Critical

  …(as long > as it doesn’t happen too frequently, see above bullet point). At the beginning of every new > line the reader is focused, but this focus gradually wears off over the duration of the line > (“Typographie”, E. Ruder). This must be the funniest thing I've read all month. The "mind is energized when jumping to the next line"? What tripe. If that's an accurate quote from something this E. Ruder wrote, then…

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