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Preface |
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Introduction |
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Chapter One A Brief History of Type |
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Gutenberg and Movable Type |
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The Industrial Revolution and the Mechanization of Type |
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8 | (1) |
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Herb Lubalin and Expressive Typography |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (2) |
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14 | (8) |
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22 | (1) |
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Design Guidelines, Nancy Sharon Collins |
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22 | (2) |
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Typographic Timeline, Ilene Strizver |
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24 | (1) |
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Historical Design, Ilene Strizver |
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25 | (2) |
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Chapter Two From Metal to Mac: Understanding Font Technology |
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27 | (10) |
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27 | (1) |
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27 | (1) |
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Type 1 (PostScript) Fonts |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (1) |
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29 | (3) |
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Techtip: OpenType Features |
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32 | (1) |
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33 | (1) |
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Font Management Utilities |
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33 | (1) |
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Techtip: OpenType Font Identifiers |
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33 | (1) |
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34 | (1) |
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Typetip: Font vs. Typeface |
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34 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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Exploring Your OpenType Fonts, Ilene Strizver |
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35 | (2) |
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Chapter Three What Makes a Typeface Look the Way It Does? |
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37 | (28) |
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38 | (2) |
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40 | (1) |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (1) |
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44 | (1) |
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45 | (1) |
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Opticals and Size-Sensitive Fonts |
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46 | (1) |
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Typetip: One- and Two-Storey Lowercase As and Gs |
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47 | (1) |
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48 | (1) |
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Typetip: Character vs. Glyph |
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49 | (1) |
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Think Like a Type Designer, Ilene Strizver |
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50 | (1) |
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Letter Parts Assignment, Catherine Begle |
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51 | (3) |
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Personal Type Specimen Catalog, Ilene Strizver |
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54 | (1) |
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Type Specimen Book and Typeface Analysis, Audrey G. Bennett |
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55 | (2) |
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Typeface Comparison Book, Joey Hannaford |
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57 | (5) |
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Block Type Project, Erich Doubek |
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62 | (3) |
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Chapter Four Selecting the Right Type for the Job |
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65 | (1) |
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65 | (2) |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (1) |
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Legibility and Readability |
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68 | (2) |
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Paper and Surface Considerations |
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70 | (1) |
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Low-Resolution Environments |
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70 | (1) |
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What Makes a Good Typeface? |
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71 | (1) |
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Consistent Design Characteristics |
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71 | (1) |
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71 | (1) |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (1) |
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Type Super Families and Systems |
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74 | (3) |
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Script, Calligraphic, and Handwriting Fonts |
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77 | (1) |
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When the Best Font for the Job Isn't a Font |
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78 | (7) |
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85 | (4) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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Weight Contrast (Light with Heavy) |
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91 | (1) |
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Width Contrast (Wide with Narrow) |
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92 | (1) |
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Script and Decorative Designs |
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92 | (4) |
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Type Super Families and Systems |
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96 | (1) |
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97 | (1) |
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Typetip: Type Specimen Materials |
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98 | (1) |
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Typetip: What's New on the Font Scene |
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98 | (1) |
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Typetip: A Bodoni by Any Other Name? |
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99 | (1) |
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Why Are All the Scary Typefaces Pointy? Christopher Andreola |
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100 | (1) |
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A Garamond Is a Garamond Is a Garamond ... or Is It? Ilene Strizver |
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101 | (3) |
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Six-Word Memoirs Poster, Elizabeth Resnick |
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104 | (3) |
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Real Signage Critique, Amelia Hugill-Fontanel |
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107 | (2) |
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Chapter Five Formatting Your Type |
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109 | (28) |
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109 | (1) |
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110 | (1) |
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110 | (3) |
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113 | (1) |
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114 | (2) |
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Typetip: Fine-Tuning Justified Type |
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116 | (9) |
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Indents and Other Paragraph Separators |
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125 | (1) |
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125 | (1) |
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Hanging Indent (r Outdent) |
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126 | (1) |
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126 | (1) |
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Typetip: Standard Ligatures |
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126 | (2) |
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128 | (1) |
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Typetip: Footnotes and Endnotes |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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Typographic Lecture Series Brochure, Karen Cheng |
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131 | (3) |
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Visualizing Poetry, Cassie Hester |
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134 | (3) |
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Chapter Six Typographic Hierarchy and Emphasis |
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137 | (24) |
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138 | (4) |
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142 | (1) |
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142 | (1) |
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Boldface (Weight Contrast) |
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143 | (1) |
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143 | (2) |
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Case (Caps vs. Lowercase) |
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145 | (1) |
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145 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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146 | (1) |
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146 | (5) |
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Typetip: Avoid Computer-Generated Styling |
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151 | (3) |
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Exercises: Typographic Hierarchy Study, Elizabeth Resnick |
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154 | (2) |
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Currency Redesign, Jimmy Moss |
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156 | (2) |
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Expressive Typography, Stephanie Nace |
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158 | (3) |
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Chapter Seven Fine-Tuning and Tweaking Your Type |
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161 | (18) |
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161 | (1) |
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161 | (1) |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (1) |
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Techtip: Unwanted Smart Quotes |
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163 | (1) |
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Hyphens, En Dashes, and Em Dashes |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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Techtip: Discretionary Hyphens |
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168 | (1) |
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Techtip: Hung Punctuation and Optical Margin Alignment |
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168 | (1) |
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168 | (2) |
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170 | (2) |
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172 | (1) |
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Techtip: Adobe Text Composer |
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173 | (1) |
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173 | (1) |
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Typetip: Breaking for Sense |
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174 | (1) |
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Techtip: Glyph Positioning and Baseline Shift |
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175 | (1) |
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Exercise: Editorial Design, Ilene Strizver |
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176 | (3) |
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Chapter Eight Spacing Considerations |
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179 | (18) |
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179 | (3) |
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Techtip: Adjusting Tracking |
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182 | (1) |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (1) |
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185 | (3) |
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Techtip: Adjusting Kerning |
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188 | (2) |
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190 | (1) |
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Techtip: Adjusting Word Spacing |
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191 | (1) |
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192 | (1) |
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Typetip: Double Word Spaces NOT! |
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193 | (1) |
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Spacing, Kerning, and Visual Alignment Exploration, Ilene Strizver |
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194 | (3) |
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Chapter Nine Finessing Your Type |
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197 | (18) |
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197 | (1) |
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Techtip: How to Access True-Drawn Small Caps |
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198 | (2) |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (1) |
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Boxed, Reversed, Oversized, and Overlapped Initials |
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203 | (4) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (1) |
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209 | (1) |
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Exercises: Information Hierarchy Book, David Kadavy |
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210 | (2) |
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Concert Poster Design, Frank Armstrong |
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212 | (3) |
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Chapter Ten Figures, Fractions, Signs, Symbols, and Dingbats |
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215 | (20) |
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215 | (3) |
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Techtip: Accessing Figures in OpenType Fonts |
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218 | (1) |
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Techtip: Tabular to Proportional Shortcut |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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Techtip: Creating Fractions in OpenType Fonts |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (1) |
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Registered, Trademark, and Copyright Symbols |
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220 | (1) |
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Techtip: Indenting Bulleted Lists |
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221 | (2) |
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223 | (1) |
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Accents and Accented Characters |
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224 | (1) |
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Typetip: Creating Accented Characters |
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224 | (1) |
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Parentheses, Brackets, Braces, and Angled Brackets |
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225 | (2) |
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227 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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Typetip: Typographic Checklist |
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229 | (1) |
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Exercises: Typographic Principles Card Set, Regina Rowland |
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230 | (2) |
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Spa Brochure, Ilene Strizver |
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232 | (3) |
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Chapter Eleven Type on the Web (and Other Digital Formats) |
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235 | (28) |
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Characteristics of Type on the Web |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (1) |
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239 | (1) |
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240 | (2) |
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242 | (1) |
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Typetip: Web-Font Services |
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242 | (1) |
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Smart Punctuation on the Web |
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243 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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244 | (1) |
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Typographic Hierarchy on the Web |
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244 | (2) |
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246 | (2) |
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Smartphones, Tablets, E-readers, and Other Devices |
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248 | (2) |
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The Crystal Goblet Online: An Assignment in Two Parts (Transparent and Opaque), La254ura Franz |
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250 | (4) |
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ENCODE / DECODE, Heather Shaw258 |
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254 | (4) |
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iPad Editorial, Marty Maxwell Lane |
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258 | (5) |
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Chapter Twelve Type in Motion |
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Combining Type and Motion |
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264 | (1) |
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265 | (1) |
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265 | (1) |
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266 | (1) |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (2) |
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Four Squares: Text, Color, Motion, Heather Shaw |
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270 | (4) |
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Design is..., Marty Maxwell Lane |
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274 | (2) |
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Film Title Sequence, David Peacock and Michaela Wagoner |
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276 | (2) |
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Digital Narrative, Dermot Mac Cormack |
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278 | (3) |
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Chapter Thirteen Designing Your Own Typeface |
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281 | (14) |
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Handwriting Fonts: A Good Place to Begin |
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281 | (3) |
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Three Approaches to Designing a Typeface |
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284 | (2) |
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286 | (1) |
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Techtip: Font Production Editors |
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287 | (1) |
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Exercises: On Beyond Zebra: The 27TH Letter Assignment, Virginia Rougon Chavis |
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288 | (2) |
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Introduction to Type Design: Symphony, James Montalbano |
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290 | (3) |
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Digitize Your Signature, James Montalbano |
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293 | (2) |
Appendices: Digital Font Foundries and Distributors |
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295 | (1) |
Web-Font Services |
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295 | (1) |
Typographic Resources |
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295 | (1) |
Glossary |
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296 | (5) |
Bibliography |
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301 | (1) |
Picture Credits |
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302 | (1) |
Index |
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