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Encyclopedia of Fonts

Gwyn Headley’s The Encyclopaedia of Fonts is unique. It shows the family trees and inspirations for the great font designs of all time. Its timeline lists fonts by date and style, and includes origins of font names. And get this: this remarkable reference costs just $18.21 at Amazon.com. The book is published by Cassell Illustrated. addthis_url [...]

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Best Practices for Font Management

I ran across two excellent documents that help you understand how to manage fonts in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: “Font Management Best Practices Leopard, CS3 & More!” focuses on using Extensis Suitcase for font management, but its information is universal. Get it at www.extensis.com. David Creamer’s “Font Management in OS X for Graphic Artists” explains font [...]

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Real Wood Type

To show wood type, you need real wood type. And that’s what Mark Kusek’s Wood Type Impressions provides. These extremely high resolution, professional quality scans were made from actual, hand printed, wood type. Each set was printed on an etching press in a series from light to dark ink, onto textured fine art printmaking paper. Some [...]

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