Customer Reviews

Adobe Type Library Reference Book

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This book provides a convenient reference to Adobe's fine type face library. The faces are presented showing all characters available and a brief paragraph showing the font in use. I find this book to be better for type comparison than the more recent 2003 book.

Much like a dictionary of useful font styles. Very helpful for graphic design work and web page design when looking for specific type to blend in with graphics. Especially good for advertising brochures and flyers. Also contains Greek alphabet and numerous symbols.

Any serious font user should have this book. Even you do not own the font, show it to your client and then buy when you need it.

This book is everything that I expected it to be. It sits on my desk and gets pulled out everytime I'm working on a project. Great investment.

I love this reference book!

It helps designers to choose a better typeface in an efficient way. Over 2,000 gorgeous fonts are arranged very well. Thanks for the make-up, paper and book-binding, you can browse these fonts pleasantly.

Basic OpenType introductions are included in English, French and German. Small icon shows glyph supported indicates the range of using of each typeface.

If you were a font afficionado, you would not miss it!

Provided a nicely printed display of the fonts in fontfolio 10. Helps with clients choosing fonts they would like to use in thier designs as expected. Would have been nice to have in a hard cover since it is used a lot.

I have zillions of fonts on my computer, but only have the essentials loaded in my Font Book, so this guide helps me find the fonts I want. It is essential for anyone who needs special fonts or someone who is, like me, picky about which fonts are used in a project. There is a section at the beginning of the book that has an easy guide to types of fonts, then there are sections with fonts grouped according to their characteristics such as serif, sans serif, script, etc. Then in the back, each font is listed and a the entire font family is printed as well as a sentence, too, so you can see how it looks and flows. I love it.

Adobe's fonts are so widely available in the otf format (they explain it in the book) that I try to use them whenever possible. This book makes it easy to find the fonts I need.

Until I bought the Kindle version of this publication I thought that everything Adobe did set a standard for excellence internationally. This relatively simple publication, however, seems to me to be an amateur attempt.

- The cover on my Kindle Book shelves (iPad, iPhone, OSX and Kindle Reader) looks to be a default piece of clip art: a blue book with a grey book mark and the title in white in the most basic of sans serif fonts.

- Inside Adobe have included the cover of the print book twice. Twice!

- The index lists fonts typed in the font itself but Adobe have simply not bothered to match the background behind each font sample to the background of the e-book. The result is that the index looks like a series of white adhesive bandages on a grey wall.

- Worst of all, however, is that every font sample in the book is a low quality JPEG. Want to zoom in and take a better look at the fonts? Sorry, all you will see is pixelation with such low resolution.

If I picked up a paper copy of this book at a book store and it was the same standard as the Kindle Edition I would buy it just to post it back to Adobe with a heads up note. Seriously, I can think of no good reason for the Kindle Edition to be so shabby.

Bought this to use with my art class as a lettering reference.

Was ok. I expected the book to be larger, with larger typeface, so the kids could trace the letters.

It arrived on time and in good condition. No complaints about the seller.