What to Read After The Anatomy of Type
Readers who loved The Anatomy of Type by Stephen Coles keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Anatomy of Type is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Anatomy of Type
Typography.
Type Matters!
Pantone's History of Color in the Twentieth Century
The New Typography
A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics
The Complete Manual of Typography
Typography Sketchbooks
Modern Calligraphy
The Product Manager's Survival Guide
Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Figures of Speech
Are You My Mother?
The ELegant Universe
Naked
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman"
The Prophet
Cat's Cradle
Outliers
Norwegian Wood
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Things Fall Apart
A Clash of Kings
The Giver
Slaughterhouse-Five