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... Books A wealth of information has been published about the art of type. "The Triumvirate of Typography"—selected primary works ... -Bruce Rogers, Purdue University Press, 1996 Complete Manual of Typography , The - Felici, James. Adobe/Peachpit Press, ...
Wiki - circehouse - 2 Jul 2011 - 11:17am - 0 comments
- Faithful revivals from early printed pages
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... revival of Griffo's last roman in its 1499 state - the font, in adulterated form, of the Hypnerotomachia - and his 1503 italic for ... of the punchcutter. The more a specimen looks like a complete letterform, like a well balanced and resolved design, the better a ...
Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:58am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- OpenType smallcaps in a separate font?
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... represents my personal views. Sometimes, both the font developer and the user would be better off if with several separate ... font management don't have a simple preview option for the complete character set. FontExpert almost has this, but none of the others ...
Forum topic - twardoch - 21 Mar 2007 - 6:21pm - 47 comments - 0 attachments
- Fontographer Vs. Fontlab...
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... Program along with a faculty member/design professional. The program will involve researching typography, studying typefaces, ... I am digitsing a face at present and am using Fontlab to complete this process. I know Fontographer in part, but would sooner use ...
Forum topic - rootedideas - 18 Apr 2005 - 5:02am - 62 comments - 0 attachments
- Critiques of the OpenType format?
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... to know this community! OpenType fonts are all the rage today. Are there any critiqes of the format, or discussions of its ... OT features, though the goal is still robust, intuitive, complete fonts, not mini-programs that make the user cry. Unfortunately I ...
Forum topic - ishamid - 16 Jan 2006 - 11:29am - 111 comments - 0 attachments
- The Mystery of Steile Futura (Topic)
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... from a few vendors, but none divulge any more than the number of weights and a price. Digital Versions URW Topic at ... we thought only needed a quick fix. It needed (1) a complete refitting and (2) in Jeff's perhaps overly-Aldine-influenced opinion, ...
Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 11:49am - 149 comments - 0 attachments
- Do font pros really use FontLab or Fontographer?
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Do the pros making fonts these days for the big foundries really use FontLab ... for the sake of education, I decided to make the font as "complete", as I could; I implemented a full character set, went through the ... 5 without buying ScanFont? Download the FontLab manual Download the FontLab manual and start reading. You can copy and ...
Forum topic - msa - 7 Mar 2007 - 8:29am - 75 comments - 0 attachments
- Trapping
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... 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 - 6:03am - 101 comments - 0 attachments
- Er...what is a font?
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... real understanding of typography. I know very little about the history of typography, it's technological evolutions and the rules of best ... for casting individual type characters, and eventually complete lines of type (linecasters, Linotype contraction of "line-of-type"). ...
Forum topic - sebsan - 19 Aug 2005 - 4:24am - 26 comments - 0 attachments
- Client request: "eliminate all hyphens" in newsletter
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Hi All -- The project is an 8-page corporate editorial-style newsletter. 8.5 x 11" page, ... overleaf. So, if that happened, they would set the complete word on the line below that last line; the reader would then have the ... be clear where the URL starts. I'm looking at a PHP manual where faint halftoned arrows are used *after* the line break to indicate ...
Forum topic - mister_eaves - 14 Jun 2007 - 8:38am - 55 comments - 0 attachments
