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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.

Typography

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 -- 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.

Call numbers can also be used to search for books on the library catalog or in the stacks. 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.

For typography, related call numbers include:

Practical printing (Includes printing as a business, layout, paper and ink, machinery, type and type founding, electrotyping, desktop publishing, typesetting, and presswork) - Z242.9-264.5

  • General works - Z246-247
  • Type and type founding - Z250-Z251
  • Type designers - Z250.7 
  • Type and type-founding -- Digital techniques -Z253 - Z253.4
  • Drawing. Design. Illustration - NC1-1940
  • General works - NC703-725
  • Graphic art materials - NC845-915
  • Printed ephemera - 1280-1284
  • Commercial art. Advertising art - NC997-1003
  • Posters - NC1800-1850
  • Decoration and Ornament. Design - NK1160-1590