User Guide

Pioneers of modern typography by Herbert Spencer
[Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1983. Rev. ed. 160 p. : ill.].
Typeface Reference Works
Graphics master; a workbook of planning aids,
reference guides, and graphic tools for the design,
estimating, preparation, and production of printing,
print advertising, and desktop publishing by Dean
Phillip Lem [Los Angeles, Calif.: D. Lem Associates, 1988.
4th ed. 153 p. : ill. (some col.)]. Although it covers much
more than just type design, and is fairly expensive, this is
probably the most important and continually useful
reference work that a desktop designer and/or publisher
should have.
A.T.A. Type Comparison Book by Frank Merriman
[Advertising Typographers Association of America, 1965].
An indispensable handbook for identifying typefaces.
Hundreds of faces are grouped together by design, making
it easy to find the one you want. Still in print, possibly in a
more recent edition.
The Encyclopedia of Type Faces, 4th Edition by W.
Pincus Jaspert, W. Turner Berry, and A. F. Johnson
[Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press, 1983]. The standard
reference in the field. A detailed listing of over 1,000 faces,
arranged by name, with full information on their history,
designers, etc.
Graphic Arts Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition by George A.
Stevenson, Revised by William O. Pakan [New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1990, 624 pp, 167 illus.] is a complete, readily
available, and pricey ($58) reference to everything from
basic block printing to desktop publishing. While not as
Macintosh-specific as some of the other works available, it
covers the hows, whens and whys of a whole range of
graphic tools, including typography, art preparation,
copyfitting and layout, film and platemaking, traditional
photocomposition and typesetting, papers and papermaking,
etc. A good general purpose book, but overkill for the
beginning desktop publisher.
Type Terminology on the Desktop [Richardson, Texas:
Altsys Corporation, 1992] is already in your possession, in
Fontographer User's Manual
D: A Short Bibliography Page #9