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Simon Garfield's Just My Type, published in England by the same people who brought us Eats, Shoots & Leaves, hopes to do for type fonts what Lynne Truss' surprise best-seller did for commas. For ...
How to Convert Open Type to True Type Font. If you create documents or graphics for your clients in your business, you can install and use custom fonts to make your designs more interesting.
Richard Ybarra, a typography instructor at the The Art Institute of California-San Diego, said: “The point size 8.5 is too small in any type font, especially for newspaper readership.
Open Photoshop CS3. Click the "T" icon on the Tools pane. If you don't see the Tools pane, click the "Window" menu, then click "Tools." When the Type toolbar opens, pull down the "Font" menu ...
When variable fonts hit the design scene a few years ago there was a great deal of buzz and excitement. But there was also ...
Google Fonts, the company's archive of free, open source fonts, lists more than 800 typographic designs. But Noto Serif CJK, which the company unveiled today, is unique in its utility. It looks ...
Every now and then a Web site may appear practically illegible because of small font sizes in articles. Though most Web sites display in relatively standard 12- to 14-point font sizes, there are ...
Fonts in Google Chrome are split into four types: Serif, Sans-serif, Fixed-width, and Standard. Using the drop-down menus, you can select what specific fonts Chrome will use for each of these types.
A technology invented at the dawn of the desktop-publishing age is about to expire. Developed by Adobe way back in the early 1980s, PostScript Type 1 fonts—a way of encoding vector-based type ...
What I hadn’t quite registered until reading Simon Garfield’s Just My Type, a fascinating and quirky new book, is the extent to which I, too, care about fonts.In fact, it dawned on me as I was ...