Typography is one of the most important graphic elements in any document. This guide contains the widest variety of font software available from leading developers--Adobe Systems, Agfa, Bitstream, Letraset, Linotype, Monotype, and many others. There is also a comprehensive index, which lists each font by name with its type foundries.

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

This acclaimed visual aid for examining the effect of line space on text type was initially published in 1980 as The Designer's Guide to Text Type. This revised and expanded edition, entirely reset in PostScript language fonts, offers type users 96 popular text typefaces with leaded showings in sizes 8,9,10,11, and 12 point. Complete alphabets in roman, italic, bold, and bold italic are included with all size showings. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

To reflect today's computerized integration of bookmaking functions, this new edition of the unchallenged bible of the publishing industry first published in 1965 and revised in 1979 drops the separation of design/production and editing into parts and instead, inserts each in its natural place in sequence, presenting bookmaking as a seamless process from concept to bound book. Illus.

The second volume of a two-volume set presents sans serif, design, outline, and ornament digital fonts (the first, unseen, reportedly contains serif and script fonts). Alphabetically arranged by section, each page features five typefaces showing 18-point alphabets, numbers, and punctuation, followed by text showings. Also included are a typeface directory, type manufacturers' profiles, hints on working with a service bureau, how to copyfit, and letter-spacing and horizontal scaling guides. For desktop publishers, designers, and typesetters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR