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Books like The Elements of Typographic Style
The best books like The Elements of Typographic Style are The Design of Everyday Things, Don't Make Me Think, and Interaction of Color. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst is about typography, design, craft. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Design of Everyday Things
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Donald Norman · Psychology
The Design of Everyday Things began as The Psychology of Everyday Things when first published in 1988, and Donald Norman revised it substantially for a 2013 edition that updated the examples for a digital age.
Both dig into design.
Read the summary → - Don't Make Me Think
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Steve Krug · Business
Don't Make Me Think is Steve Krug's short, plainspoken guide to web usability.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - Interaction of Color
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Josef Albers · Philosophy
Josef Albers published Interaction of Color in 1963 as a teaching instrument, not a textbook.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - The Elements of Style
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Strunk & White · Self-help
The Elements of Style is a short book about writing English clearly and without waste.
A kindred science read.
Read the summary → - The War of Art
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Steven Pressfield · Self-help
The War of Art is Steven Pressfield's short, blunt manual for anyone who creates — or wants to create — and finds themselves blocked, procrastinating, or unable to start.
Both dig into craft.
Read the summary → - Grid Systems in Graphic Design
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Josef Müller-Brockmann · Philosophy
Josef Müller-Brockmann's Grid Systems in Graphic Design, first published in German and English in 1981 by Niggli Verlag, is the closest thing graphic design has to a foundational technical text.
Shares typography and visual communication with The Elements of Typographic Style.
Read the summary → - Just My Type
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Simon Garfield · History
Just My Type is Simon Garfield's popular history of fonts and typography, aimed at general readers who have become dimly aware that fonts matter without having the vocabulary to explain why.
Shares typography and craft with The Elements of Typographic Style.
Read the summary → - Meggs' History of Graphic Design
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Meggs' History of Graphic Design
Philip B. Meggs · History
Meggs' History of Graphic Design is the standard reference text for the history of visual communication, covering the development of writing and printed images from prehistoric cave markings through the digital revolution.
Shares typography and visual communication with The Elements of Typographic Style.
Read the summary → - On Directing Film
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David Mamet · Philosophy
On Directing Film is David Mamet's account of lectures he gave at Columbia University's film school, transcribed and lightly edited into a short, blunt book about the craft of directing.
Shares craft and visual communication with The Elements of Typographic Style.
Read the summary → - The New Typography
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Jan Tschichold · Philosophy
The New Typography, published in German in 1928 as Die neue Typographie, is Jan Tschichold's manifesto for a modernist approach to printed communication.
Shares typography and visual communication with The Elements of Typographic Style.
Read the summary → - Thinking with Type
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Ellen Lupton · Self-help
Thinking with Type is Ellen Lupton's critical guide to typography — not as a catalog of fonts, but as a discipline for thinking about how written language takes visual form.
Shares typography and visual communication with The Elements of Typographic Style.
Read the summary → - Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough & Michael Braungart · Science
Cradle to Cradle is William McDonough and Michael Braungart's argument that the conventional approach to environmentalism — reducing, reusing, recycling, being "less bad" — is insufficient and in some ways misleading.
Both dig into design.
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Books like The Elements of Typographic Style: quick answers
What are the best books like The Elements of Typographic Style?
The best books like The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst are The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, The Elements of Style by Strunk & White, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Elements of Typographic Style, such as typography, design, craft.
What should I read after The Elements of Typographic Style?
A natural next read after The Elements of Typographic Style is The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. Both dig into design. Other strong choices are Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, The Elements of Style by Strunk & White.
What books are similar to The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst?
The Elements of Typographic Style centers on typography, design, craft. Books with a similar feel include The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman, Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug, Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, The Elements of Style by Strunk & White, The War of Art by Steven Pressfield, Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
