A new book on typography

languagehat.com today noted the website Thinking With Type, designed to support Ellen Lupton's book of that name. The book is published by Princeton Architectural Press. The website is a good introduction to terms and some conventions of typography. I'll have to find a copy of Ms. Lupton's book to see what she has to say there.

My favorite book on typography is The Elements of Typographic Style (3d ed.) by Robert Bringhurst. Hermann Zapf has called it "the Typographers' Bible," and most reviewers refer to it as a great classic in its field (in all of its three editions and thirteen years). Bringhurst skillfully presents a great amount of detail in a manner that even a newcomer to the topic can easily comprehend, and he also does not confine himself to typography of the roman alphabet. I won't promise that the book will hold everyone's attention — who could make such a promise — but if you're interested in the topic, it will prove nourishing.

Today I also discovered the Web Style Guide's section on typography. I haven't taken a close look at it yet.