Typographica was the name of a journal of typography and visual arts founded and edited by Herbert Spencer from 1949 to 1967. Spencer was just 25 years old when the first Typographica was issued. He also served as the editor of the journal. Typographica was produced in two series: the "Old Series" and the "New Series". Each series was published in sixteen issues.
Old Series
Typographica 1, 1949. Contents: Magic and the art of writing; The integration of photo and type; The use of space in typography.
Typographica 2, 1950. Contents: Copper-plate scripts; Political typography; The ornamental lettering of Imre Reiner; Visual aids.
Typographica 3, 1950. Contents: Function and design in business printing; The possibilities of the photogram; Central School experiments with photograms; Modern French book illustration
Typographica 4, 1951. Contents: Type faces: a plea for rational terminology; First principles and last hopes; Music engraving; Chastel's illustrations for ‘Le Bestiare’.
Typographica 5: Purpose and Pleasure, 1952. Contents: Is there a 'new' style of typography?; Illustration versus typography; Modern typography in the modern world ; Typography to-day ; Must line weight be uniform?
Typographica 6, 1952. Contents: Printers’ and founders’ type specimens; The liberation of the letter; Title on the spine: the case for standardisation; Arguments against standardisation.
Typographica 7, 1953. Contents: Newspaper typography; Max Bill; Artist and newspaper; A note on early race programmes.
Typographica 8, 1953. Contents: A show of hands; Dick Elffers; The autobiography of the wooden press; University magazines; Designing ‘Perspectives USA’.
Typographica 9, 1954. Contents: Publishers’ colophons; The machine-set advertisement; Pattern, sound, and motion ; Recent typography in France; Trends in abstract painting in France.
Typographica 10, 1955. Contents: Stedelijk Museum catalogues; The training of typographers; French lithographic illustration.
Typographica 11, 1955. Contents: The tower of Babel; International publishing; H. N. Werkman, printer-painter.
Typographica 12, 1956. Contents: Letters in steel; Additions and revivals; Clavé’s Gargantua; The development of Mistral.
Typographica 13, 1957. Contents: French book clubs; Locomotive lettering; The arrow in the road; The illustrations of Avigdor Arikha.
Typographica 14, 1958. Contents: The publications of Gaberbocchus Press; Two German presses; Sandberg's Experimenta Typographica; Old-fashioned types and new-fangled typography.
Typographica 2, 1960. Contents: de Jong, Hilversum; BCG. Contents: Typophoto; The books of Diter Rot; National Zeitung; The drawings of Alcopley; From painting to photography: experiments of the 1920s.
Typographica 4, 1961. Contents: Mile-a-minute typography?; Road signs in Holland; Street level. Contents: Reading by machine; Penguins on the march; DIN–a new, old cause; A case for auto-letterpress.
Typographica 6, 1962. Contents: Reading by touch; Pat McAuliffe of Listowel; Lettering in Coventry Cathedral; Typewriter type faces; Watching words move.
Typographica 7: Typography in Britain, 1963. Contents: Piet Zwart; Design underfoot; Thematic photography ; Education and the child; This is my private world.
Typographica 9, 1964. Contents: Avant garde graphics in Poland between the two worlds wars; Henryk Berlewi and Mechano-faktura; Sunday photography; Crowns.
Typographica 10, 1964. Contents: Newspaper seals; The compass rose; The emergence of the printer's stock block; Sex and typography.
Typographica 11, 1965. Contents: Alexander Rodchenko: a Constructivist designer; Poems/Prints; Massin; Herbert Bayer's photographic experiments; Words and images; At Remaurian.
Typographica 12, 1965. Contents: The nymph and the grot: the revival of the sanserif letter; Fishing figures; The living symbol; Art on the assembly line; Emphatic fist, informative arrow; The arrow in China.
Typographica 13, 1966. Contents: Tombstone lettering on slate; Hong Kong signs; Aesthetic pattern programmes; Type size: a system of dimensional references.
Typographica 14, 1966. Contents: Idéogrammes lyriques; A book of matches ; Protest by design.
Typographica 15, 1967. Contents: Paul van Ostaijen; Paul van Ostaijen: Lyric poetry–instructions for use; Objects count ; Spanish street lettering.
Typographica 16, 1967. Contents: Typographica 1949–67; John Heartfield; The word as ikon; Kurt Schwitters on a time-chart.
