Adobe Type Library Reference Book - Couverture souple

Adobe Systems Inc.

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ISBN 10 : 0321136462 ISBN 13 : 9780321136466

Editeur : Adobe Press,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

Book by Adobe Systems Inc

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Quatrième de couverture

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

Présentation de l'éditeur

Choosing the right type can be one of the hardest parts of any designer's job. There are thousands of available fonts from which to choose. Now available in bookstores for the first time, this comprehensive reference guide makes it easy to choose from the vast selection of over 2,750 typefaces from the Adobe Type Library, one of the largest and most respected collections of type available. This book displays the characters or each typeface, plus useful reference charts with standard expert character sets for Windows and Mac OS. It's organized both alphabetically and by style, with an easy-to-use quick reference which shows what a font looks like and where to find it within the book. This type library reference features typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers. Readers will learn the distinguishing characteristics of different styles--from a graceful Grotesque to simple sans serif--as well as the ins and outs of OpenType and MultipleMaster, ornamental type, symbols, historical facts, and more.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Adobe Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0321136462
• ISBN 13: 9780321136466
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 320