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Making digital type look good / by Bob Gordon ; designed by Graham Davis.
Publication details: New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001.Description: 191 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:- 0823029999 (pbk.) :
- Z250.7 .G67 2001
Contents:
Summary: Digital typography offers a limitless range of customizable features. This time -and work-saver provides hundreds of practical type models, showing the range of settings presented by today's most popular design software.
How Digital Type Works -- Type's rich heritage -- Anatomy of type -- Type categories -- Special characters and typographical detailing -- Detailing -- Anatomy of a paragraph -- Rendering type -- Bitmaps and vectors -- The computer screen -- Printing -- Online viewing -- Antialiasing -- Font technology -- Type 1 fonts -- Truetype -- Multiple Master fonts -- Determining which font format to use -- Unicode fonts -- OpenType and TrueType Open -- WorldType -- Font problems -- Font copyright -- Font fine-tuning -- Horizontal spacing control -- H&Js (hyphenation and justification) -- Unjustified text -- Hyphenation Zone -- Justified text -- When and where to take control -- What is the effect of making H&J changes? -- Vertical spacing -- Hanging punctuation -- Legibility and readability -- Examples of Comparative Settings -- Controlling text -- Justified text -- Unjustified setting -- Type specimen settings -- Serif Fonts -- Bembo -- Bodoni -- Caslon -- Clearface -- Ehrhardt -- Enigma -- Garamond -- Glypha -- Melior -- Minion -- New Baskerville -- Perpetua -- Scala -- Times -- SANS SERIF FONTS -- Bliss -- Eras -- Franklin Gothic -- Frutiger -- Futura -- Gill Sans -- Interstate -- Meta -- Myriad -- Neue Helvetica -- Optima -- Syntax -- Univers -- Dual Sans/Serif Fonts -- Officina -- Rotis -- Stone -- Custom, Web & Display Types -- Designing your own fonts -- Web and screen -- Cascading style sheets -- Font embedding--font objectives -- Web fonts -- Type as a graphic -- Taking positive steps to help type look good -- Microsoft Reader -- HTML -- How does HTML work? -- Emigre fonts -- Today's major players -- Font development, font libraries, and typeface designers -- Type collections and libraries -- Type designers -- Display type -- Size, weight, and disposition -- Designing, controlling, and modifying type for display -- Text in Photoshop -- Efficiency of display type -- How much do we need to customize our display type?.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | Z 250.7 .G67 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 652040 |
Includes index.
How Digital Type Works -- Type's rich heritage -- Anatomy of type -- Type categories -- Special characters and typographical detailing -- Detailing -- Anatomy of a paragraph -- Rendering type -- Bitmaps and vectors -- The computer screen -- Printing -- Online viewing -- Antialiasing -- Font technology -- Type 1 fonts -- Truetype -- Multiple Master fonts -- Determining which font format to use -- Unicode fonts -- OpenType and TrueType Open -- WorldType -- Font problems -- Font copyright -- Font fine-tuning -- Horizontal spacing control -- H&Js (hyphenation and justification) -- Unjustified text -- Hyphenation Zone -- Justified text -- When and where to take control -- What is the effect of making H&J changes? -- Vertical spacing -- Hanging punctuation -- Legibility and readability -- Examples of Comparative Settings -- Controlling text -- Justified text -- Unjustified setting -- Type specimen settings -- Serif Fonts -- Bembo -- Bodoni -- Caslon -- Clearface -- Ehrhardt -- Enigma -- Garamond -- Glypha -- Melior -- Minion -- New Baskerville -- Perpetua -- Scala -- Times -- SANS SERIF FONTS -- Bliss -- Eras -- Franklin Gothic -- Frutiger -- Futura -- Gill Sans -- Interstate -- Meta -- Myriad -- Neue Helvetica -- Optima -- Syntax -- Univers -- Dual Sans/Serif Fonts -- Officina -- Rotis -- Stone -- Custom, Web & Display Types -- Designing your own fonts -- Web and screen -- Cascading style sheets -- Font embedding--font objectives -- Web fonts -- Type as a graphic -- Taking positive steps to help type look good -- Microsoft Reader -- HTML -- How does HTML work? -- Emigre fonts -- Today's major players -- Font development, font libraries, and typeface designers -- Type collections and libraries -- Type designers -- Display type -- Size, weight, and disposition -- Designing, controlling, and modifying type for display -- Text in Photoshop -- Efficiency of display type -- How much do we need to customize our display type?.
Digital typography offers a limitless range of customizable features. This time -and work-saver provides hundreds of practical type models, showing the range of settings presented by today's most popular design software.
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