TYPO Guides – 2025 edition

Everyday designer ‘basics’ guides for people working with type, print, and paper, with a dash of digital – for design students to designers wanting a handy go to guide.

– San Serif Typo Guide
– Serif Typo Guide
witness, compare, design

Pulled and reimagined from the Aa Archive, this handy guide is for designers navigating the art of type and typography in a world where design automation has dispensed the foundational knowledge and experience behind great type and design.

An A2 poster that folds to A5.

The guide offers:
type glyphs keyboard commands for Apple.
16 x body text samples.
Dot screens on pix and grey tones.
Type sizes, type comparisons, line weights, type anatomy and parts.
ISO paper sizes, with corresponding envelopes.
Concise print and type definitions.
Type-based and type-practice recommended reading.

A handy companion in your type design adventures.

Typefaces by Klim Type Foundry. Print by Gunn & Taylor.

This legendary type guide was reprinted 10 times back in the day and will be ready to serve type designers in March 2025.

It is so exciting to bring back, and rethink this piece, great design type and print awaits.