Hyphen Press is a London publisher of books on

design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

and

typography Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), and ...

. Hyphen Press was founded by

Robin Kinross Robin Kinross (born 1949) is an author and publisher on the topic of visual communication and typography. His most significant work is ''Modern Typography.'' He is a proprietor of Hyphen Press, which published books on design and typography from 1 ...

in 1980, but has published nearly all of its books beginning in the 1990s. Hyphen Press has produced about thirty books on a diverse range of topics, but most of its most important publications are devoted to the topic of typography. These include Christopher Burke's ''

Paul Renner Paul Friedrich August Renner (9 August 1878 – 25 April 1956) was a German typeface designer, author, and founder of the Master School for Germany's Printers in Munich. In 1927, he designed the Futura typeface, which became one of the most ...

'', 1998; Robin Kinross's ''

Anthony Froshaug Anthony Froshaug (1920–1984) was an English typographer, designer and teacher, born in London to a Norwegian father and English mother. Influenced by ideas of European modernism, particularly the work of Jan Tschichold, Froshaug is considered ...

: Typography & Texts'', 2000; Harry Carter's ''A View of Early Typography'', 2002; ''Designing Books'', 2003, by

Jost Hochuli Jost Hochuli (born 8 June 1933 in St. Gallen, Switzerland) is a Swiss graphic designer known for his book designs. He is also the author of ''Detail in Typography'', which has been translated into several languages. Early career Jost Hochuli att ...

and Robin Kinross; Peter Burnhill's ''Type Spaces'', 2003;

Gerrit Noordzij Gerrit Noordzij (2 April 1931 – 17 March 2022) was a Dutch typographer, typeface designer, and author. He started teaching letters and calligraphy at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 1960. Motivated to make type accessible to his stude ...

's ''The Stroke: Theory of Writing'', 2005; and Robin Kinross's ''Modern Typography'', 2010.

Princeton Architectural Press Princeton Architectural Press is a small press publisher, specializing in books on architecture, design, photography, landscape, and visual culture, with over 1,000 titles on its backlist. In 2013, it added a line of stationery products, including ...

is the North American distributor of Hyphen Press books. Hyphen Press has also produced several music CDs since 2004.

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