Digital Typography Sourcebook [Paperback]

Marvin Bryan (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471148113 | ISBN-13: 978-0471148111 | Publication Date: November 29, 1996

Everything you really need to know about typefaces

Digital Typography Sourcebook is your ultimate font reference—it tells you how to identify different fonts, where to buy them and how much you should pay, what fonts to avoid, and how to create professional looking designs.

You'll become familiar with over 400 fonts, including the hottest new designs from some of the world's leading designers. With the help of hundreds of before-and-after examples, expert Marvin Bryan gives you professional techniques for making the best use of digital typography in your work. He even tells the fascinating stories of the men and women who created many well-known typefaces and the circumstances that inspired them. You'll also find out:

• How to identify fonts in print and adapt them to your own work
• How to assemble your own versatile font library
• How to convert fonts from Macintosh to PC and vice versa
• How and when to modify a font
• How to design your own fonts and typefaces

About the CD-ROM

This hybrid Mac/PC CD-ROM includes:

• A collection of fonts from Bitstream, Image Club, and others
• Font browsers and organizers
• An Adobe demo software package, including Illustrator, PageMaker, PhotoShop, and Gallery Effects collected specifically for this book
• Software for modifying and creating your own fonts
• Freehand and Fontographer demos from the MacroMedia Multimedia Showcase

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

An ideal book for beginners who want to learn how to use type effectively in their work, Digital Typography Sourcebook is a thorough guide to the many kinds of typefaces available today. The author, Marvin Bryan, provides a great deal of historical information on the development of old style, transitional, modern, slab serif, sans-serif, script, blackletter, uncial, display, and novelty typefaces. Bryan also addresses technical issues of digital typography, such as using special characters and understanding the fonts available on Macintosh and Windows systems. The book discusses software utilities such as Macromedia's Fontographer, which lets you design your own fonts, and teaches you how to use type effectively in layouts and build your own font library. The CD includes a large font collection and demo versions of popular graphics packages such as Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand.

From the Publisher

This professional desktop publisher's reference to fonts covers all the bases, including how to find fonts, how to convert them between Macs and PCs, how to modify them, and how to use them to create professional designs. You'll learn how to identify fonts in print so you can create a similar look. And you'll be stepped through the creation of a font library, including what fonts to buy, how much you should pay, and what fonts to avoid.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (November 29, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471148113
• ISBN-13: 978-0471148111
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,073,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Good Introduction, February 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Digital Typography Sourcebook (Paperback)

This book is a good introduction to digital fonts, but if you already have other books on typography you can pass on this one. One of the main reasons that I bought this book was because of the claim that it included "A Large Collection" of fonts on the included CD-ROM. I found only three Windows fonts that were of any use to me. The rest of the "fonts" are actually bitmaps pictures of the typefaces. The other software programs are demo versions, most of them old, and newer versions can be obtained on the websites of Adobe, Pyrus and other vendors. Since I don't own an Apple computer I can't comment on the fonts or demo versions of those programs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference on typography even though examples are weak, January 27, 2000

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This review is from: Digital Typography Sourcebook (Paperback)

This book has a very good overview of typography for a beginner, the development and history of various typefaces, and the anatomy of the characters. The CD contains a few fonts that help make the price of the book a bit better. The actual examples of typefaces in use were terribly amateurish, however, and didn't serve to illustrate the author's point of view very well. I would recommend this book as a reference, but not a guide for using type in practice.