Are there any good general typesetting books / references?

Book Recommendations

All links go to Amazon where you can find in-depth reviews.


Online resources

As a LaTeX user, I'm also interested in typesetting practices. Here are some links, I listed on my blog earlier:

  • Guidelines for typography among other Typography Resources collected by Charles Hedrick
  • iLT - iLoveTypography - inspiring articles concerning typography
  • JEP - Journal of Electronic Publishing - research and discussion about contemporary publishing practices
  • slanted - German mag, typography and design
  • typographica - journal of typography featuring news, observations and commentaries on fonts and typographic design
  • Planet typography

Edit: in German, perhaps useful though, directly connected to LaTeX:

  • Typographic rules and their implementation in LaTeX

The memdesign package used to be part of the memoir class but has been spun off. It has a lot of notes about book design.