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Real World Print Production with Adobe® Creative Cloud®
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Real World Print Production with Adobe® Creative Cloud®

by Claudia McCue
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
376 pages
10h 52m
English
Peachpit Press
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6. Fonts

We have a love-hate relationship with fonts. We love their chiseled serifs, we swoon over their graceful swashes, we kern them to the verge of claustrophobia. We painstakingly track text to perfection and agonize over minuscule changes in leading values. Wait a minute. This is starting to sound like a romance novel. That would be the love part of the equation. Alas, this chapter is more about the hate part.

Font Flavors

Fonts come in several formats: OpenType, PostScript (often also referred to as Type 1), and TrueType. Within those major species, there are subspecies, but it’s sufficient to know the major species. If you’re a Mac user, you also have Apple’s data-fork–based TrueType format fonts, called dfonts.

PostScript (Type 1) ...

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