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100 1 _aFelici, James.
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245 1 4 _aThe complete manual of typography :
_ba guide to setting perfect type /
_cJames Felici.
260 _aBerkeley, CA :
_bPeachpit Press,
_cc2003.
300 _axx, 360, [1] p. :
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_c26 cm.
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500 _a"Foreword by Frank Romano"--Cover.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [361]) and index.
505 0 _aTypographic Basics -- The State of the Art and How We Got Here -- The Building Blocks of Type -- Evolution and Automation -- Desktop Publishing Alters the Rules -- Output Resolution and Type Quality -- Units of Typographic Measurement -- Absolute Measurements -- Relative Units -- Other Units of Measure -- About Typefaces -- Definitions: Font versus Typeface -- Type Design and the Em Square -- Type Anatomy -- Optical Aspects of Typeface Design -- Size Changes Everything -- Principal Features of Typefaces -- Typefaces as Role Players: Text, Display, and Decorative -- Classifying Typefaces by Historical Period -- Typeface-Naming Issues -- About Fonts -- The Two Basic Kinds of Fonts: Outline and Bitmapped -- What's in a Font? -- Cross-Platform Font-Compatibility Issues -- Finding the Characters You Need -- Identifying Font Formats -- The Basics of Font Management -- Font-Editing Programs -- The Basics of Using Typefaces -- Readability -- Traditional Roles for Seriffed and Sans Serif Types -- Expressing Emphasis -- Uses for Condensed and Extended Faces -- Using Display Type -- Using Decorative Type -- Type in Color -- Reverses -- Typesetting versus Typewriting -- Page Sizes and Line Lengths -- Word Spaces -- Line Endings and Carriage Returns -- Typeface Choice and Point Size -- Unavailable Characters -- Tabs -- Setting Type on a Personal Computer -- Typesetting and the Word Processing Legacy -- How WYSIWYG Works -- How Operating Systems Manage Fonts -- Font Embedding -- Font Copyright Issues -- What Makes Good Type Good (and Bad Type Bad) -- Legibility and Readability -- Type Color -- Optical Effects and Alignment Problems -- The Eyes Have It -- How to Set Type -- Measure, Point Size, and Leading -- Line Length, or Measure -- Leading -- Typeface-Specific Considerations -- Controlling Hyphenation and Justification -- What Hyphenation and Justification Means -- Controlling Word and Letter Spaces -- Controlling Hyphenation -- How Measure Affects H&J -- Specifying Word-Space Ranges in Ragged-Margin Type -- Specifying Word-Space Ranges in Text with Justified Margins -- Specifying Letter-Space Ranges -- Altering Character Widths during H&J -- Testing Your H&J Values -- Fixing and Avoiding Composition Problems -- Aesthetic Rags -- Kerning and Tracking -- Definitions: Kerning and Tracking -- Kerning in Practice -- Using Tracking Controls -- Managing Indention and Alignment -- Kinds of Indents -- Skews and Wraps -- Alignments of Characters and Text Blocks -- Visual Alignment -- Special Characters and Special Situations -- Extended Character Sets -- Small Capitals -- Old-Style Numbers -- Ligatures, Logotypes, and Diphthongs -- Swash Characters -- Superiors, Inferiors, and Ordinals -- Fractions -- Dashes -- Points of Ellipsis -- Common Pi Characters -- Accented Characters -- Character-Specific Spacing Issues -- Initial Capitals -- Document Structures and Typographic Conventions -- Structural Elements -- Navigation Tools -- Independent Text Units -- Tables -- The Structure of Tables -- Table-Setting Techniques -- Faking It -- Language-Specific Issues -- Character Sets -- Hyphenation -- Time Expressions -- Currency Symbols -- British English versus American English -- French Typographic Conventions -- Spanish Typographic Conventions -- Italian Typographic Conventions -- German Typographic Conventions -- Typesetting with Style Sheets -- How Style Sheets Work -- Creating Style Sheets -- Using Style Sheets -- Output-Resolution Issues -- The Advantages of High-Resolution Output -- Type Onscreen -- Typography and the World Wide Web.
520 0 _aPresented in a beautifully illustrated design format, this is the ultimate typesetting reference for publishing pros and educators. Part one of the book, Typographic Basics, moves from the first typesetting and printing systems all the way to the digital age. Included are chapters on the history and evolution of type, typefaces and fonts, setting type on personal computers, and more.
650 0 _aType and type-founding
_vHandbooks, manuals, etc.
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650 0 _aGraphic design (Typography)
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