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Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs

Baltimore: Maran Printing Services, 1975. [Scan]

Chronik der Schriftgießereien in Deutschland und den deutschsprachigen Nachbarländern. Bearbeitet von Friedrich Bauer, Offenbach am Main 1928. Mit Ergänzungen und Nachträgen von Hans Reichardt

Frankfurt am Main: Hans Reichardt, 2011. [PDF]

Buchdruckschriften im 20. Jahrhundert. Atlas zur Geschichte der Schrift ausgewählt und kommentiert von Philipp Bertheau unter Mitarbeit von Eva Hanebutt-Benz und Hans Reichardt

Darmstadt: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, 1995.

Faces from Letraset: The story of the display typeface collection

London: eLexicons Limited, 2016.

[ISTD Shop]

Albert Hollenstein 1930–1974: l'équipe, la collection

Paris: Typofilm, 1994.

Catalog for the exhibition Albert Hollenstein. Oeuvre graphique & typographique shown in late 1995 at the École Estienne, Paris, and in early 1996 at the Musée de l'imprimerie et de la banque de Lyon.

Fraktur: Forum und Geschichte der gebrochenen Schriften

Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 1993.

Letterproeven van Nederlandse gieterijen / Dutch typefounders’ specimens

From the Library of the KVB and other collections in the Amsterdam University Library with histories of the firms represented. Amsterdam: De Buitenkant / Nieuwkoop: De Graaf Publishers, 1998. [PDF]

Circuitous Root

Mineral Point, WI, 2008–Present. https://circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/index.html

An A–Z of Type Designers

London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2006.

Dutch Type

Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2004.

Stephenson Blake: The last of the old English typefounders

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2002.

Adrian Frutiger – Typefaces. Complete Works

Basel: Birkhäuser, 2008

English, French (Caractères. L’œuvre complète), and German (Schriften. Das Gesamtwerk) editions. A second edition followed in 2014, a third in 2021.

International Index of Hot-Metal Typefaces

Frankfurt am Main, 2011. https://www.klingspor-museum.de/Intl_Bleisatz_Index.html

A comprehensive catalog of metal typefaces (for manual and machine composition) known in the 20th century, including older designs. Merges info from Wetzig, Jaspert/Berry/Johnson, and McGrew, with additions from other sources.

Übersicht der internationalen Schriftdesigner

Oberneisen, c. 2001–Present. http://www.klingspor-museum.de/Kuenstler/Kuenstler_A.html

A list of type designers with links to background information in pdf format, researched and compiled by Hans Reichardt. Includes 12,203 designers as of April 2022.

A Database of American Typeface Design Patents, 1842–1899

Mineral Point, WI: Circuitous Root, 2015. [Link]

Compiled by Jane W. Roberts and Stephen O. Saxe. Published Version No. 4, 2015-04-03 (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International)

The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog

Austin: University of Texas, 2022.

The Type Heritage Project

Abington, PA, c. 2011–Present. https://history.typeheritage.com/

Type Design Developments: 1970 to 1985

Arlington, Virginia: National Composition Association, 1985.

Der Typograph Hermann Zapf: Eine Werkbiographie

Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015.