Book description
Choosing the right font can be one of the hardest parts of your
job as a digital designer—there are literally thousands to
choose from. One of the largest and most respected collections of
high-quality fonts is the Adobe Type Library, now available
entirely in the cross-platform OpenType® format, which
promises to make font incompatibilities a thing of the past. Any
designer who has struggled to find just the right typeface for a
project will find this comprehensive reference an indispensable
guide to Adobe’s vast selection of over 2,200
typefaces.
Organized both alphabetically and by style, the newly revised and
updated
Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Third Edition
provides:
Specimen pages displaying every font in Adobe’s enormous collection, including 60 new typefaces
Typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers
Design inspiration and expert advice on type selection
An expanded section on the OpenType format to help you make the
most of its expanded character set and layout
capabilities
Explanations and illustrations of the distinguishing characteristics of different type styles—from a graceful Garalde Oldstyle to Adobe’s new Opticals—as well as ornaments and symbols
A chart showing the Adobe Western 2 character set, including the right keyboard combinations to access different characters
Listings for 31 Japanese fonts from Adobe
Table of contents
Product information
- Title: Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Third Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2007
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780321553133
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