... UNITIZING) for Lino, unitizing for Mono. So he made the choice to make the two 'a's fit the 9 units (which yields a ... are in existence, it is a matter of access. They would complete the story. If Bruce Rogers and Frederick Warde were happy, I ...

Forum topic - gerald_giampa - 27 Aug 2003 - 7:03am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... 'nother thread :-) ) and I've avoided justified type in the past so don't have a lot of experience with it. I'm working in Quark ... I won't ever scale a line. But I will use additional manual tracking on occasion to fix problems -- depends upon the typeface and ... I'm about half way through James Felici's The Complete Manual of Typography , and have just started rereading ...

Forum topic - alyce - 9 May 2007 - 12:17pm - 74 comments - 0 attachments

... specimens" (Lane and Lommen). The photo is about 11 years prior to the production of Pascal, but I suspect ... The skills required nothing more than reading the manual. I believe the unit system for Linotype was 12 units Monotype ... master patterns, and then the metal working pattern, I can complete a typeface in one size much quicker than I could if I attempted to ...

Forum topic - hrant - 23 Aug 2003 - 10:47am - 61 comments - 0 attachments

... about "middle-dots" got me wondering about the origin of the "two spaces after a period" rule I learned in typing ... when the operator decides that the line just keyed in is complete. An operator wishing to set with tight word spacing on the ...

Forum topic - whoisdan - 5 Mar 2004 - 1:41pm - 51 comments - 0 attachments

... of typography and design and is a very practical book. The only caveat is that it only goes up to the 80s so the digital side of ... In http://www.typebooks.org/ you'll find a complete typographic bibliography. out of the five or so books ...

Forum topic - matthew_dob - 18 Oct 2002 - 10:15am - 38 comments - 0 attachments

... I find a lot of you professionals saying that autokern is the work of satan and should therefore not be used under any circumstances. So, ... hhp Hey! In this site you can find *complete* issues about spacing and kerning oriented to digital development ...

Forum topic - helle - 5 Aug 2002 - 12:27am - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... a face. But most important, how is it different from the other versions. HELP PLEASE. OldStyleFigures. Which are ... with lining figures it comes with lining figures. All come complete with ligatures. There is no back and forth font changes required. ...

Forum topic - tehelka - 12 Jan 2004 - 11:41pm - 50 comments - 0 attachments

I am designing a book of which I am also the author, to be published by a commercial house. I am pretty happy with the ... following an example in Felici's book 'The Complete Manual of Typography'. His example was also in Minion, but in a narrower ...

Forum topic - William Berkson - 30 Jul 2003 - 8:26pm - 96 comments - 0 attachments

... if I offended anyone) ;) I wanted to tweak the apostrophe and comma because they seemed too thick so I changed them a ... Fontographer's hinting (both auto and the manual methods) are indeed far inferior (and in places buggy) ... " provided that each copy shall be a true and complete copy", "you may not reverse engineer, decompile, or ...

Forum topic - emilie - 5 Apr 2004 - 3:44pm - 15 comments - 0 attachments

... concept, this dumping as a bad thing. Is Adobe then the enemy to small foundries because they can afford to get students used to ... the same font bundle as the Premium Edition, including complete Warnock Pro and Brioso Pro families? (Many thanks to Mr. ...

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