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Design Media Arts

This Library Research Guide is intended as a starting place for UCLA researchers, pointing to resources and strategies for finding information about design and media arts topics.

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Relevant Subject Headings and Call Numbers

Search the UCLA Library Catalog under the following subject headings to find relevant sources for typography and typographers:

>Alphabets
>Display type
>Computerized typesetting
>Graphic Design (Typography)
>Graphic Design (Typography) -- History
>Layout (Printing)
>Printing -- specimens
>Type and type-founding
>Type and type-founding -- Digital techniques
>Type and type-founding -- Periodicals
>Type designers
>Type ornaments
>Typefaces
>Typesetting
>Typographers
>Web Typography > 

Specific typefaces can be searched by the subject type and type-founding with their name following, e.g. Type and type-founding -- Gothic type.

Type designers can also be searched by their names, e.g. Tschichold, Jan.

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Each section of the stacks (Stacks, Oversize, Reference, Pictorial Reference, Current Periodicals, etc.) can be browsed by call number, as can the library catalog. The Arts Library has a closed stacks area called "The Cage" where delicate, fragile, and rare materials are shelved; you will discover these materials when searching or browsing the library catalog. Try browing these call numbers:

>  >Z246                   Graphic Design (Typography) >Z250 - Z251       Type and type-founding >Z250 .A2            Type designers >Z250.7                Type and type-founding -- Digital techniques >Z253 - Z253.4   Typesetting