The Print profile
on this site features detailed pointers to the history
of typography, including works such as Anthony Cahalan's
brief paper Design & Consumption: The Proliferation
of Typefaces (PDF),
Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographical Style
(Vancouver: Hartley & Marx 1996), Counterpunch:
Making Type in the Sixteenth Century, Designing Typefaces
Now (London: Hyphen Press 1996) by Fred Smeijers,
TypeRight
and Stop Stealing Sheep (& Find Out How Type Works)
(Mountain View: Adobe 1993) by Erik Spiekermann &
EM Ginger.
Illuminating Letters: Typography & Literary Interpretation
(Amherst: Uni of Massachusetts Press 2001) edited
by Paul Gutjahr & Megan Benton considers how typography
affects meaning, in essays ranging from the Bible to comics.