Fonts In Use Bibliography
- Annenberg, Maurice
- Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs
Baltimore: Maran Printing Services, 1975. [Scan]
- Bauer, Friedrich and Hans Reichardt
- 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]
- Bertheau, Philipp
- 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.
- Daines, Mike
- Faces from Letraset: The story of the display typeface collection
London: eLexicons Limited, 2016.
- École Estienne
- 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.
- Kapr, Albert
- Fraktur: Forum und Geschichte der gebrochenen Schriften
Mainz: Verlag Hermann Schmidt, 1993.
- Lane, John A. and Mathieu Lommen
- 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]
- MacMillan, David M.
- Circuitous Root
Mineral Point, WI, 2008–Present. https://circuitousroot.com/artifice/letters/index.html
- Macmillan, Neil
- An A–Z of Type Designers
London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd, 2006.
- Middendorp, Jan
- Dutch Type
Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2004.
- Millington, Roy
- Stephenson Blake: The last of the old English typefounders
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press; London: The British Library, 2002.
- Osterer, Heidrun and Philipp Stamm (editors)
- 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.
- Reichardt, Hans
- 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.
- Reichardt, Hans and Otmar Hoefer
- 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.
- Stephen O. Saxe
- 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)
- Shields, David
- The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection: A History and Catalog
Austin: University of Texas, 2022.
- Conroy, Anna
- The Type Heritage Project
Abington, PA, c. 2011–Present. https://history.typeheritage.com/
- Wallis, Lawrence W.
- Type Design Developments: 1970 to 1985
Arlington, Virginia: National Composition Association, 1985.
- Weichselbaumer, Nikolaus Julius
- Der Typograph Hermann Zapf: Eine Werkbiographie
Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015.