chapter 4 About Fonts
Typefaces are what you get to admire after your work is finished, but fonts
are the tools you have to wrestle with in the meantime to get the job done.
Computer operating systems and applications have made it much easier to
work with fonts, but the process is still quite technical. Working with fonts
forces you to learn more about your computer than you probably want, but
everything you need to know is in this chapter.
The Two Basic Kinds of Fonts:
Outline and Bitmapped
Digital devices—computer monitor screens, desktop printers, imageset-
ters—create images out of dots. The simplest way to create type for one of
these devices ...
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