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Quickly master the concepts and skills you need to successfully design with type
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A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques, and Artistry
Computer Font: Data File, Glyph, Dingbat, Font, Pixel, Font Editor, Bézier Curve, Apple Advanced Typography, Kerning, List of Typefaces, Font Hinting, … Typeface, Typesetting, TeX, LaTeX, MetaPost
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A computer font (or fount) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s most fonts are digital, used on computers. There are three basic kinds of computer font file data formats: Bitmap fonts consist of a series of dots or pixels representing the image of each glyph in each face and size. Outline fonts (also cal… More >>
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Early Advertising Alphabets, Initials and Typographic Ornaments
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full-page plates present the best typographical design from the 15th through the 20th centuries, including 60 handsome alphabets, many examples of decorative initials and a dazzling assortment of headings, scrolls and flourishes, rules and panels, ornaments, ribbons, cartouches, borders and more.
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