Entries in bold are items I own. I’ll link to any comments about each as I work my way through the list…
Type Design: General
[Anon] & Carol Twombly, “Becoming a type designer.” Designer Graphics, no 4, 1994, pp 9–27
[Anon] “How to design a typeface”. Graphics World 32, September, 1981. pp 58–59
Adams, Debra & Richard Southall, “Problems of font quality assessment.” In Jacques André & Roger D Hersch (eds) Raster Imaging and Digital Typography. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp 213–222
Anderson, Donald M, Calligraphy: The Art of Written Forms. New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1992
Baudin, Fernand, “Handwriting and type-design from Pierre Hamon to Emery Walker.” Quaerendo, vol XV, no 2, 1985, pp 103–114
Black, Alison, Typefaces for Desktop Publishing: A User Guide. London, Architecture Design and Technology Press, 1990
Bringhurst, Robert, The Elements of Typographic Style. (2nd ed), Point Roberts: WA, Hartley & Marks, 1996
Carter, Harry G, “Letter design and typecutting.” Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts, no 4935, 1.10.1954, pp 878–895
Carter, Matthew, “Theories of letterform construction: Part 1.” Printing History, vol XIII, no 2, 1991, pp 3–16
Catich, Edward M, The Origin of the Serif. 2nd ed. Catich Gallery, St Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, 1991
Dwiggins, William Addison, WAD to RR: a letter about designing type. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard College Library, 1940
Gaskell, Philip, “A nomenclature for the letterforms of roman type.” Visible Language, vol X, no 1, 1976, pp 42–51
Goudy, Frederic W, Typologia: Studies in Type Design and Type Making. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1977 (1, 2)
Gray, Nicolete, A history of lettering: creative experiment and letter identity. Oxford, Phaidon, 1986
Hartz, Sem, L, “An approach to type designing.” Penrose Annual, vol 52, 1958, pp 39–42 [reprinted in: Sem L Hartz, Essays. Amsterdam, Serifpers, 1992]
Harvey, Michael, Lettering Design. London, The Bodley Head, 1975
Harvey, Michael, Letters into Words. London, William Clowes & Sons Ltd, 1973
Hochuli, Jost, “Review of Edward M Catich, The Origin of the Serif.” Visible Language, vol VII, no 1, 1973, pp 73–91
Jammes, André, “Académisme et Typographie: the Making of the Romain du Roi.” Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no 1, 1965, pp 71–95
Johnson, Alfred Forbes, “The Goût Hollandois.” The Library, 4th series, vol XX, 1939, pp 180–196
Johnson, Alfred Forbes, Type designs: their history and development. 3rd ed. London, Andre Deutsch, 1966
Kaech, Walter, Rhythm and proportion in lettering/Rhythmus und Proportion in der Schrift. Oltren & Freiburg in Breisgau, Walter Verlag, 1956
Kindersley, David, An essay in optical letter spacing and its mechanical application. Wynkyn de Worde Society, London, 1963
Kinross, Robin, Modern Typoraphy. London, Hyphen Press, 1992 (1)
Krimpen, Jan van, A letter to Philip Hofer on certain problems connected with the mechanical cutting of punches. Boston, David R Godine, 1972
Krimpen, Jan van, On designing and devising type. New York, The Typophiles, & London, Sylvan Press, 1957
Lawson, Alexander, Anatomy of a typeface. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1990
Luna, Paul, Understanding type for desktop publishing. London, Blueprint, 1992.
Mandel, Ladislas, “Developing an awareness of typographic letterforms.” Electronic Publishing, vol 6, no 1, 1993, pp 3–22
Meier, Hans Eduard, Die Schriftentwicklung/The development of script and type/Le développement des caractères. Cham: Switzerland, Syntax Press, 1994
Morison, Stanley, Type designs of the past and present. London, The Fleuron Ltd., 1926
Morison, Stanley, Typographic design in relation to pantographic composition. Book Club of California, 1959
Mosley, James M, “French academicians and modern typography: designing new types in the 1690s.” Typography Papers, no 2, 1997, pp 5–29
Mosley, James M, The nymph and the grot: the revival of the sanserif letter. London, Friends of the St Bride Printing Library, 1999
Noordzij, Gerrit, The stroke of the pen, The Hague, Koninklijke Akademie, 1982
Smeijers, Fred, Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century; designing typefaces now. London, Hyphen Press, 1996
Southall, Richard, “A survey of type design techniques before 1978.” Typography Papers, no 2, 1997, pp 31–59
Southall, Richard, “Character description techniques in type manufacture.” In Rosemary Sassoon (ed) Computers and typography. Oxford, Intellect, 1993, pp 85–100
Southall, Richard, “Shape and appearance in typeface design.” In J H Miller (ed) Protext III: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Text Processing Systems. Boole, 1986, pp 75–86
Spencer, Herbert, The visible word. Lund Humphries, London, 1969
Spiekermann, Erik, Rhyme & reason: a typographic novel. Edited by Paul Stiff. Berlin, H Berthold AG, 1987
Tracy, Walter, Letters of Credit: a view of type design. London, Gordon Fraser, 1986
Wallis, Lawrence W, “Technology determining aesthetics.” Professional Printer, vol 38, no 1, 1994 (?), pp 17–18
Wallis, Lawrence W, A Concise Chronology of Typesetting Developments 1886–1986. London, The Wynkyn de Worde Society & Lund Humphries, 1988
Zapf, Hermann, “Future tendencies in type design: the scientific approach to letterforms.” Visible Language, vol XIX, no 1, 1985, pp 23–33
Type Design: Case Studies
Baines, Phil & Catherine Dixon, “Times Classic: design analysis.” Eye, vol 10, no 40, pp 60–61
Baines, Phil, “Face lift: new cuts at the Times.” Eye, vol 10, no 40, pp 52–59
Carter, Matthew, “Galliard: a modern revival of the types of Robert Granjon.” Visible Language, vol XIX, no 1, 1985, pp 77–97
Frere-Jones, Tobias, “Experiments in type design.” AIGA Boston Journal, no 2, 1997
Frutiger, Adrian (Collaborators: Nicole Delamarre & Andrè Gürtler), “OCR-B: A standardized character for optical recognition.” Journal of Typographic Research, vol I, no 2, 1967, pp 137–146
Gibbons, Charles, “Zealand, reflections on developing a typeface.” Visible Language, vol XXXIII, 3, 1999, pp 254–283
Holmes, Kris, “Lucida: the first original typeface designed for laser printers.” Baseline, no 6, 1985, pp 12–13
Jammes, Andrè, “Acadèmisme et typographie: the making of the romain du roi.” Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no 1, 1965, pp 71–95
Weidemann, K, “Biblica – designing a new typeface for the Bible”, Baseline, no 6, 1985, pp 7–11
Knuth, Donald The & Hermann Zapf, “AMS Euler – a new typeface for mathematics.” Scholarly Publishing, vol 20, no 3, 1989, pp 131–157
Mathews, M V, Carol Lochbaum, & Judith A Moss, “Three Fonts of Computer-drawn Letters.” Journal of Typographic Research (Visible Language), vol I, no 1, 1967, pp 345–356
Meier, Hans Eduard, “On the design of Barbedor and Syndor.” In Roger D Hersch (ed) Visual and technical aspects of type. Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp 148–64
Schulz-Anker, Erich, “Syntax Antiqua, a sans-serif on a new basis.” Gebrauchsgraphik, August 1970, pp 49–56
Stauffacher, Jack, “The Transylvanian Phoenix: the Kis-Janson types in the digital era.” Visible Language, vol XIX, no 1, 1985, pp 61–76
Stone, Sumner, “Hans Eduard Meier’s Syntax-Antiqua.” In Charles Bigelow; Paul Hayden Duensing & Linnea Gentry (eds) Fine Print On Type. London, Lund Humphries, 1989, pp 22–25
Stone, Sumner, “The Stone family of typefaces: new voices for the electronic age.” In Charles Bigelow; Paul Hayden Duensing & Linnea Gentry (eds) Fine Print On Type. Lund Humphries, London 1989, pp 136–139
Unger, Gerard, “A type design for Rome and the year 2000.” Typography Papers, no 3, 1998, pp 61–73
Unger, Gerard, “Experimental No 223, a newspaper typeface, designed by W A Dwiggins.” Quaerendo, vol XI, no 4, 1981, pp 302–324
Unger, Gerard, “The design of a typeface.” Visible Language, vol XIII, no 2, 1979, pp 134–149
Zapf, Hermann & Jack Werner Stauffacher, Hunt Roman: the birth of a type. Pittsburgh: PA, The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1965
Typeforms: Description
Atkins, Gordon, The classification of printing types. Oadby: Leicester, Apple Barrell Press, 1975
Bastien, Alfred, The 1953 classification of type design. West Drayton, Bastien Brothers Ltd, 1958
Bauermeister, Benjamin, A manual of comparative typography: the PANOSE system. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988
Boggan, Scott & Michael de Laurentis, “The Panose typeface-matching system: a system for matching static or distortable fonts.” BYTE, May 1994, pp 187–192
Dixon, Catherine, “Why we need to reclassify type.” Eye, vol 5, no 19, 1995, pp 85–6
Gaskell, Philip, “A nomenclature for the letterforms of roman type.” Visible Language, vol XX, no 1, 1976, pp 42–51
Ghosh, Pijush K & Charles A Bigelow, A formal approach to lettershape description for type design: Report STAN–CS–83–966. Stanford: CA, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, 1983
Hoefler, Jonathan, “On classifying type.” Emigre, no 42, 1998, pp 55–70
King, Emily, “Compare and contrast.” Eye, vol 7, no 25, 1997, pp 36–39
Morison, Stanley, “On the classification of typographical variations.” In Stanley Morison, Letter forms: typographic and scriptorial. Two essays on their classification, history and bibliography. London, Nattali & Maurice, 1968, pp 1–132
Mosley, James M, “New approaches to the classification of typefaces.” British Printer, no 3, 1960, pp 90–6
Mountford, John, “A functional classification.” In Peter T Daniels & William Bright, The world’s writing systems. Oxford University Press, 1996, pp 627–632
Noordzij, Gerrit, “A program for teaching letterforms.” In Ferdinand Baudin & John Dreyfus (eds), Dossier A–Z: ATypI 1973. Andenne, Rèmy Magermans, 1973
Noordzij, Gerrit, “Broken scripts and the classification of typefaces.” Journal of Typographic Research, vol VI, no 3, 1970, pp 213–240
Noordzij, Gerrit, “Typeface classification.” In: Bernd Holthusen & Albert Jan Pool, Scangraphic digital type collection: Edition 4. Mannesmann Scangraphic, 1990, pp 65–81
Southall, Richard, “A new index of typefaces.” Penrose Annual, no 74, 1982, pp 255–8
Thorp, Joseph, “Experimental application of a nomenclature for letter forms I.” Monotype Recorder, vol XXXI, no 246, 7–8.1932, pp 3–6
Thorp, Joseph, “Experimental application of a nomenclature for letter forms II.” Monotype Recorder, vol XXXII, no 294/new series no 1, 1933, pp 15–20
Thorp, Joseph, “Towards a nomenclature for letter forms.” Monotype Recorder, vol XXX, no 240, 4–5.1931, pp 7–19
Tracy, Walter, “Type design classification.” Visible Language, vol V, no 1, 1971, pp 59–66
Wilkinson, Timothy, “A practical approach to typeface classification.” British Printer, November 1965, pp 86–89
Description II
Knuth, Donald E, METAFONT: A system for alphabet design: Report STAN–CS–79–762. Stanford: CA, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, 1979
Knuth, Donald E, “The concept of a Meta-Font.” Visible Language, vol XVI, no 1, 1982, pp 3–27
Hofstadter, Douglas R, “Metafont, metamathematics, and metaphysics.” Visible Language, vol XVI, no 4, 1982, pp 309–338
[various] “Other replies to Donald Knuth’s article, ‘The
concept of a MetaFont.’” Visible Language, vol XVI, no 4, pp 339–359
Sampson, Geoffrey, “Is Roman type an open-ended system? A response to Douglas Hofstadter.” Visible Language, vol XVII, no 4, 1983, pp 410–412
Hofstadter, Douglas, “A reply from Douglas Hostadter.” Visible Language, vol XVII, no 4, 1983, pp 413–416
Knuth, Donald E, “Lessons learned from Metafont.” Visible Language, vol XIX, no 1, 1985, pp 35–53
Knuth, Donald E, Digital typography. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 1999
Leonidas, Gerry, “In search of the digital Cresci: Don Knuth’s Digital typography.” Information Design Journal, vol 9. no 2&3, pp 111–118
Type Design: Digital
[Anonymous] Ikarus. Baseline, no 3, 1981, pp 6–11
[Brady, Fred, Robert Slimbach, Gail Blumberg, et al] [Adobe type specimen booklets] Mountain View: CA, Adobe Systems Inc., 198x–199x
Adobe Systems Inc, Adobe Type 1 Font Format. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., Reading: MA, 1990
Andrè, Jacques & Roger D Hersch (eds), Raster Imaging and Digital Typography. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
Bigelow, Charles & Donald Day, “Digital typography.” Scientific American, August 1983, pp 94–105
Bigelow, Charles & Jonathan Seybold, “Technology and the
aesthetics of type: maintaining the ‘tradition’ in the age of electronics.” The
Seybold Report, vol 10, no 24, 1981, pp 3–16
Bigelow, Charles & Kris Holmes, “The design of a Unicode font.” Electronic Publishing, vol 6, no 3, September 1993, pp 289–305
Bigelow, Charles, “Font design for personal workstations.” BYTE, January 1985, pp 255–270
Bigelow, Charles, “The principles of digital type: quality type for low, medium and high resolution printers.” The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, vol 11, no 11, 8 February 1982, pp 11-3–11-23
Boag, Andrew & David Saunders (eds.), Classic revivals: the Monotype Conference Exhibition 1992 & Back to basics: Stanley Morison and old face. Redhill: Surrey, Monotype Typography Ltd., 1992
Boggan, Scott & Michael de Laurentis, “The Panose typeface-matching system: a system for matching static or distortable fonts.” BYTE, May 1994, pp 187–192
Daines, Mike, “Some aspects of the effects of technology on type design.” In Rosemary Sassoon (ed) Computers and typography. Oxford, Intellect, 1993, pp 76–84
Dawson, Martin, “Can classic, remastered fonts retain the spirit of the ‘authentic’ original?” Eye, vol 11, no 41, 52–57
Day, Donald, “Donald Knuth’s TEX & METAFONT: New Directions in Typesetting.” In Charles Bigelow; Paul Hayden Duensing & Linnea Gentry (eds) Fine Print On Type. London, Lund Humphries, 1989, pp 35–36
Dreyfus, John & Renè Murat (eds.), Typographic opportunities in the computer age: papers of the 11th Congress of the Association Typographique Internationale. Prague, June 1969. Typografia Prague, 1970, pp 52–55
Flowers, Jim, “Digital type manufacture: an interactive approach.” IEEE Computer, May 1984, pp 40–48
Hersch Roger D (ed), Visual and technical aspects of type. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993
Hersch, Roger D et al (eds), Electronic publishing, artistic imaging, and digital typography. Berlin, Springer, 1998
Karow, Peter, Digital formats for typefaces. Hamburg, URW Verlag, 1987
King, Emily, “Digital type decade.” Eye, vol 10, no 40, pp 40–47
Kinross, Robin, “The digital wave.” Eye, vol 2, no 7, 1992, pp 26–39
Lofting, Peter, “Managing Complexity in Font Design.” Didot: First European Summer School in Digital Typography, Lausanne, 1991
Lommen, Mathieu & Peter Verheul (eds), Haagse letters. Den Haag, Uitverij de Buitenkant, 1996
Maag, Bruno, “Don’t ‘U’ turn — New problems demand better
solutions.” Baseline, no 21, 1996, pp 17–20
McQueen, Clyde D III & Raymond G Beausoleil, “Infinifont: a parametric font generation system.” Electronic Publishing — Origination, Dissemination and Design, vol 6, no 3, 1993, pp 117–132
Miller, J Abbott, Dimensional typography: case studies on the shape of letters in virtual environments. Kiosk: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996
Porchez, Jean-François & Philippe Millot, Lettres Françaises: spècimen de caractéres français. Paris, Association Typographique Internationale/association pour la diffusion de la pensèe française, 1997
Seybold, John W The world of digital typesetting. Seybold Publications, Inc., 1984
Unicode Consortium, The Unicode standard: version 3.0. Reading: Mass., Addison-Wesley, 2000
Wallis, Lawrence W, Electronic typesetting: a quarter century of technological upheaval. Gateshead: Tyne & Wear, The Paradigm Press, 1984
Yefimov, Vladimir & Maxim Zhukov, Kyrillitsa ’99: international type design competition. Moscow, 1999
Zapf, Hermann “The designer in the world of Metafont.” In Hermann Zapf, Hermann Zapf & His Design Philosophy. Chicago, Society of Typographic Arts, 1987, pp 93–8
Zapf, Hermann, “The changes in letterforms due to technical developments”. Journal of Typographic Research, vol II, no 4, 1968, pp 351–368