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(R) 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 ...
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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(R) 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 Ad
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