While I really love Tufte's books, for more direct advice I recommend Albert Cairo's The Functional Art. I don't remember discussion of fonts offhand, but everything else in your list is covered.

Several of the other comments, such as Wilkinson's GoG or Cleveland's research, I don't think make sense as an intro to the topic. I have posted my notes on various data viz books (which are quite heterogenous) in this blog post: https://andrewpwheeler.com/2020/11/04/overview-of-dataviz-bo...