Resource Guide:
Typography

• Using Typography to Communicate (Course)
• Early Typography
• Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals
• OpenDyslexic

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Fonts by Hoefler & Co.
• Understanding Typography
• Eye on Design: Typography
• Font and Typeface Legal Tip Sheet
• Type Directors Club
• Professional Web Photography Book
• Canva

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Design
• DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Typography
• Glyphs (Graphic methods)
• Graphic arts
• Graphic design (Typography)
• Type and type-founding
• Typesetting
• Visual communication

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Bridgeman Art Library
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Films on Demand
• JSTOR
• National Gallery Collection
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Early Typography
• Graphic Arts Monthly
• Journal of Graphic Engineering and Design
• Printing in Relation to Graphic Art

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.