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Reminiscent of the exuberant print styles found on turn-of the-century posters and broadsides, this collection features such attention-getting fonts as Carnival and Houdini, the exotic Tokyo, the glamorous Diamond Inlay, Startime, and Golden Era, as well as Cavalcade, Cinderella, Earthquake, Ringmaster, Torpedo, and many others. Affordable and copyright-free, these attractive faces come in assorted shapes—mostly tall, fat, and bold, but always eye-catching and easy to use.
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You Can Almost Hear The Ringmaster!
Circus fonts have always been fun to use and a number of these are unique. Dan Solo had a huge collection of great old and new type faces. You'll find 24 of them here. The fonts are in both Windows True Type and Macintosh formats. The pages have the complete alphabets and a character chart. Be sure to notice the "extra characters" that are offered in some fonts. ... Read more

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Finally-a great book on type!
Finally, a great book on typefaces! I must have a dozen books on type, and this book has leaped to the front on my list!

Most books on fonts are written for graphic artist professionals, who generally care little about the history of type, but are big into the 'feel' of type. I find these too ephemeral, too highbrow, for someone with a scientific background. Others are written for people interested in the history of type, printing, etc., and provide no information on using type today.

This book covers both bases well. It treats type faces historically, tells why some were invented (some fonts were developed as a result of the invention of advertising) and gives (at least to those of us who do graphic design work part-time-I work for a small company and do occasional graphic design) hints on using type faces, like which faces generally do well as body type versus headline matter, when leading or spacing is needed, etc. Great examples, both historic and current, show examples of many fonts in use.

Very well printed, in a large enough size to make examples clearly visible (where many type books fail) and provides multiple examples of using each type face (another common failing). Highly recommended for everyone interested in the history of printing and to beginners and amateurs in the use of typography today.

Very good
It was nice doing business with you. I got the item in good condition. Keep it up!

From Gutenberg to Opentype
What every person needs to know anout the major fonts: their inventors, unique qualities their history, and their historical family of fonts.

A welcome addition
From Gutenberg To Open Type: An Illustrated History Of Type From The Earliest Letterforms To The Latest Digital Fonts by Robin Dodd (Associate Lecturer, London College of Communications) is a seminal and detailed historical survey of the printed letter from the era of the Gutenberg press moveable fonts down to today's desktop publishing software typefaces. Profusely illustrated throughout, From Gutenberg To Open Type is especially recommended to the attention of academicians, authors, publishers, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the history of printing as well as professionals, artists and designers who work with type design and print. Of special note are the side panels to the regular text that explains how to use individual typefaces, notes common pitfalls, and showcases specifically related benefits to a given font. Informed and informative, From Gutenberg To Open Type is a welcome addition to personal, professional, and academic library reference collections. ... Read more

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Graphic designers love music. This is attested not least by the tremendous enthusiasm that readers of the typography magazine Slanted bring to its "Typo Lyrics" column, in which designers interpret music in entirely new ways with the help of fonts. For this publication of the same name, celebrated graphic designers like Fons Hickmann as well as talented young designers from all over the world have taken song lyrics and used them as the inspiration for innovative font designs. The result is a collection of fascinating visuals "typographic images" that present contemporary fonts a little bit differently. The extraordinary interplay of type design and music brings the fonts to life and practically sets them dancing. In contrast to classical pattern books and font fans, this volume provides a special, more emotional experience of typography and illustrates the great expressive potential of typefaces. On analogy with the traditional classification of fonts, the book is organized into eleven chapters, each of which treats a particular font family and song lyrics from a particular musical style.

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This is a comprehensive guide to typography, font management techniques and fonts for the 2 million users of HP LaserJet and compatible printers. Includes a 250-page font specimen section. ... Read more

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FREE FONT INDEX 01 contains type specimens of a superb selection of free fonts. On the enclosed free CD-Rom, all fonts are provided for immediate use. ... Read more

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A rewritten, expanded edition updated to FontLab 5 giving a practical walk through the process of designing a font. This is not about artistic considerations, but the practicalities of putting a font together. This book uses Fontlab 5 to design a new OpenType font of 600+ characters, step by step. The focus is on practical design tips and techniques for those of us who do not like nor want to do coding. The author has been designing fonts since 1994 and has over 100 fonts on the market at Myfonts.com and the Monotype family of sites under the Hackberry Font Foundry banner ... Read more

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As someone who works with fonts every day, you need to know exactly howfonts work in Mac OS X. Long-time Mac author Sharon Zardetto Aker hasthe answers you need, explaining where your fonts reside, why they arethere, and what to do about duplication and long Font menus. Oncethat’s under control, you’ll learn things like the ins and outs ofdifferent font installation methods; how to use Font Book to manage,validate, and organize fonts; ways of dealing with legacy Mac OS 9fonts; and how to make the most of character-rich Unicode fonts. And tohelp with those maddening font problems, Sharon providestroubleshooting steps and real-world advice for solving problems fast.If you’ve experienced seemingly inexplicable trouble with charactersdisplaying incorrectly, an inability to type a particular character,fonts missing from Font menus, confusing behavior in Microsoft or Adobeprograms, Font Book crashing, or Character Palette misbehaving, RealWorld Mac OS X Fonts has the help you need.

In this book, you’ll find the answers to questions like these:

• What types of fonts can I use with Mac OS X?
• In what order does Mac OS X access fonts from all their possible locations?
• How can I figure out what characters are available in a Unicode font?
• How can I minimize font-related troubles when sharing documents across platforms?
• How do I go about troubleshooting a font problem?
• How do I enter special characters?
• How do I print font samples?
• How do I work with legacy fonts?
  

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CONCISE EXPLANATIONS for Real World Usage
When OS 9 Classic was retired, it forced a radical transition to reorganize and manage fonts without the ATM.

This book is the clearest and simplest guide for OSX users to understand how font functionality has altered in the OSX environment. Also vital to crossplatform users, the author Zardetto Aker simplifies the complex nature of sharing fonts between two platform radicals (Windows and APPLE).

Those who earn their living in computer design using real world situations would benefit from buying this book.

One analogy that describes it best:

Any graphic project is like the recipe for a perfect pot of "CHILI"
FONTS are the spices going into that pot.
If you don't manage the spice in your chili, like not managing the fonts in your project .... You wind up with disaster.

MUST READING ... Zardetto Akers' Font Management in OSX takes the confusion out of the font dynamics restructured on OSX.

A guide through the labyrinth
I love my Mac, & I love typography. What I don't love is the mind-numbing complexity of OSX's font handling. Although I don't lament the passing of the ever-crashing OS9, it's framework for fonts was beautifully simple. There's a price for progress.

This book provides what's needed to understand the foundation concepts and terminology, and to deal confidently with common font issues. Thoroughly explained, it's made apparent that the font framework of OSX is not so incomprehensible after all. For any tech-savvy graphic artist or designer, an indispensable volume for your reference shelf.

Making the Mac Safe for Fonts
What a splendid guide! Even if you are content to useTIMES ROMAN all the time, you should still look at this book to see a model of how to write a computer guide. None of the breezy self conscious humor you find in some books (the Dummy series or Scott Kelby's otherwise informative PhotoShop books). But friendlier and more attuned to the reader's anxieties and potential mistakes than the standard dry guides (e.g. the Missing Manuals series, which are not bad). Aker seems to sense exactly what you might need to know at just the right moment, but yet does not overwhelm you without a lot of detail all at once.

I recently switched from a PC (since 1980)to Mac, which is as everyone said so much more elegant, stable and better in almost every respect.But the font system is just as complicated and eccentric in OS X as in Windows XP.You need to do some housekeeping even if you are not a font maven. Follow the steps carefully laid out in Chapter 2 (rather tedious but precise), and your system will run more smoothly and you will know a lot about where your fonts are, and how to keep them behaving well.

I am almost never moved to write reviews here, and certainly not of computer books. But this is an exceptional contribution.

Solved the mess!
I do graphics and own Macs from October, 1985. I passed thru all the font technologies that were done into the computer... from enlarging 72pt bitmaps and correcting them, the early times of Adobe's ATM and so on.
But --maybe I'm getting old-- with the introduction of Mac OS X, typography went almost out of control for me. Althought I do not use per se Office I need to install it to open others files... and it destroy any organizated fonts folders that you had managed,
Then, in a desperate move, I bought Zardetto's book!
And everything came back to order: clear instructions lead me in a clever and consistent way. I confess I did it twice. First time I said myself: "I'm an old macintoshian..." But then I realized that following the step-by-step instructions was more inteligent. Then, with everything in order, I was back "in control".
So, my advice --for newbies and oldies-- follow the instructions and then personalize your fonts. OK, first buy and read the book!

Fix font problems - Flawlessly
Face it - you'd think just putting your fonts in the FONT folder would be sufficient. But, strange things do happen.And, for me it is never at a good time.Like when you upgrade Adobe CS ... which made half my fonts DISAPPEAR.
Thanks for the info and instructions about AdobeFntXX.lst alone - made this book a must have in my library.
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Fonts: A Guide for Designers and Editors is a practical reference for creating good-looking text in a variety of business applications, using popular Windows software tools. Unlike other font books, this unique guide focuses on specific, day-to-day business tasks. You'll concentrate on executing the task—from generating memos to creating video titles—and learn to produce attractive text in the process.

Learn the fundamentals of good typesetting:
Whether it's done by hand or by computer, effective typesetting relies on the same basic principles. Key topics include font terminology, guidelines for font selection, kerning and leading, estimating publication lengths, allowing for signatures and folios, and more.

Find out how to solve common problems:
You'll learn to diagnose printer and display problems, how to select and use font utilities, how to recognize defective fonts, and how to organize fonts into application groups to make access easier and improve computer performance.

Explore the sophisticated possibilities of computer-generated type:
You'll learn how to create on-screen presentations, video titles, color slides and transparencies, and use a variety of special effects.You'll also find plenty of expert design information advice, tips, notes, and illustrations.

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Mourad Boutros, author of Arabic for Designers, enlists his professional peers to examine the global context for Arabic design and typography. The thematic thread that runs through every article, case study and illustration is how technological advances have furthered, and changed, the use of Arabic throughout the world, whether it is printed or found online. Detailed accounts of how advances in font technology have permitted digitized Arabic to accurately represent the Arabic calligraphic tradition provides a discourse for non-Arabic speakers to consider the language's cultural, religious and aesthetic issues in a 21st century context, including teaching Arabic in a global context, the development of contemporary Arabic fonts and multilingual Web design. ... Read more

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How technological advances in printing and other forms of communication have influenced the use of Arabic
To most westerners, Arabic script is simply exotic. In "Talking About Arabic", Mourad Boutros, and an impressive roster of professional experts examine and analyze Arabic script in a multi-country and multi-cultural context with respect to the use and strategic employment Arabic design and typography. Replete with numerous real-world examples deftly illustrating how technological advances in printing and other forms of communication have influenced the use of Arabic, whether it is published in print or online, "Talking About Arabic" deftly examines and illustrates how advances in font technologies have enabled digitized Arabic to advance Arabic calligraphic traditions in providing a discourse for both Arabic and non-Arabic speakers with respect cultural, religious and aesthetic linguistic issues in a contemporary and global cultural context with respect to Arabic fonts and web site designs. ... Read more

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If you're searching for a font that goes beyond ho-hum, this book is for you. Today's computers provide a selection of fonts that serve reasonably well for workaday letters and publications, but have become utterly boring from overuse. If you want your project to attract the reader's attention you need an original font.

Indie Fonts provides a showcase collection of more than 2000 diverse fonts from 19 of today's hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. Indie Fonts will help readers find some of the highest quality fonts available today.

The type styles range from the best of Matthew Carter's classic designs to the latest irreverence of ingoFonts. Designers searching for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces. ... Read more

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Terrible!
Bought this book for a friend who's in the graphic design business;all this book does is show you a bunch of fonts on paper, you still have to purchase the fonts through seperate vendors.TOTAL RIP OFF!!!!!!

This book is great!0 Stars for Amazon though... Consider Yourself Warned!
I bought this book from Amazon thinking that I'd have better luck than the Oct. 2005 shopper... Boy was I wrong! Not only is the book all broken in/cover torn & scratched... the CD IS MISSING!!! That's part of the reason I bought this book. I purchased this book "brand new" from Amazon (triple-checked my receipt to confirm).

The book itself is great, but please do yourself a favor and DO NOT buy this book from Amazon--you'll be thoroughly disappointed.

bad for business
this item was described as brand new in plastic wrap, which is why i purchased it as a gift for a friend. not only was this item CLEARLY used, it was falling apart. the book was shipped to me with a broken spine, the paper sover had marks all over it and there was NO plastic wrap protecting the item. i am very upset with the service i received, and will NOT be shopping with amazon again!

Resource for graphic artists and web designers--wonderful
This is an unusual volume; you get a book with 408 pages of various resources, organized by font foundry. You can sample the work of each foundry and get an idea of their product line.

Best of all, the front of the book has in index in alphabetical order showing each font. So you can locate a font you like and then look it up for additional information.

You can also find the AIGA's guide to the Use of Fonts, important for understanding copyright in using fonts in your work.

The bonus CD has 33 fully-licensed fonts. Not all of them are unique--you can find some of these gratis on the web, but the collection is handy for those who can't get enough fonts. I only found a few of these really worth having.

American Spirit
Charaille
Lovesick
Nightmare
Scrawm
Sunspots
Transponder
Fridayluck
Patching Compound
Snipple
Schnookems
Black Widow
Sparkly (Fontdiner.com, a fave of mine)
Loungy (also fontdiner.com)
Bowl-o-rama
Eric sans and sans italic
Sinsation
P22 typewrites
Cusp Three Opp
PRR Sinel
Faceplate sans A and C gauge
Atomic Suck
Stunner Leather Jackts
Screwtop regular and negative
TX Manifesto
Cyphor7
Strenuous 3D

My faves are of course from fontdiner.com--the best retro fonts out there, I think.

Indie Fonts
Wow! "Indie Fonts" is indeed a quality book both in the information it provides and the workmanship afforded in the making of the book itself.Few publishers take pride in making such a quality product as this...like the bookbinders of yesteryear.You can see the workmanship as soon as you lay eyes on it.You can feel the wokmanship the moment you pick it up.A work of Art!Highly recommended.Enjoy! ... Read more

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Finally the incredible design transformation of the alphabet is given its proper due. The global explosion of type houses is increasing the accessibility and variety of fonts everywhere, allowing virtually anyone to make unique design statements with type. More than 40 of the most innovative type designers and font houses proudly showcase their most exciting font alphabets--many of them never seen before in print--as well as showing their use in design applications that reach well beyond the ABC's. Additional value is derived in the explanation of their creative thinking that went into each design. ... Read more

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Superb
This book is fantastic for typographic tycoons such as myself. I (bears) recommend this book to the world.

It's great
The content, the pages and the explanation are superb. ... Read more

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This book is part of the Our Name in History series, a collection of fascinating facts and statistics, alongside short historical commentary, created to tell the story of previous generations who have shared this name.The information in this book is a compendium of research and data pulled from census records, military records, ships' logs, immigrant and port records, as well as other reputable sources. Topics include:

• Name Meaning and Origin
• Immigration Patterns and Census Detail
• Family Lifestyles
• Military Service History
• Comprehensive Source Guide, for future research

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Designed to be useful to graphic designers, desktop publishers, CAD/CAM draftpersons, and hardware/software systems managers, this font primer discusses basic styles, standareds, formats, compression methods, and much more. ... Read more

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Out-of-Date
When it was written (in 1993) it was a fairly useful book on computer fonts. Today most of the technology has changed so many topics are irrelavent. For example, in this time before True Type fonts were widely available, he discusses non-scable fonts, font cartridges and dot matrix printers. Also the last third of the book, which contains specimens of fonts, addresses for font vendors and reference books, is also outdate. ... Read more

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This RVR 1960 Super Giant Print Reference Bible offers the comfort of a larger print Bible. La Biblia letra supergigante con referencias RVR 1960 le ofrece la comodidad de la letra grande. ? Words of ... Read more

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Grandmother Loves It!
I purchased this Bible for an elderly grandmother in Guatamala.I never actually saw the Bible but it was received with great enthusiasm.She loved the leather cover, the special features, and the absolutely huge print which enables her to read it without the use of a magnifying glass.Having a Bible in Spanish which was actually readable meant the world to this precious lady.I recommend it for anyone who needs a Bible in Spanish and needs it to be in extra large print.

17 Point type!
I was very surprised with the largest print I have ever seen... 17 point characters! --HUGE--(I don't know what the other reviewer is talking about)I was expecting 14 point characters.This is, howevever, a very large (and heavy) Bible.It is almost the size of a regular copy paper 11" X 8".You will have a hard time finding a cover for it, because it is so big.Other than that, it is great for the visually impaired; and will serve well as a puplit Bible.

Large print
When it says "super giant print" it means large print.The normal print version of this bible is small and the "large" is normal size.
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As the biggest and best font catalog for electronic publishing, Version 5.0 includes almost every commerically available font in the English-speaking world.Displayed are over 13,000 font samples from over 60 font foundries; from classic to contemporary, traditional to trendy, and simply unusual to absolutely bizzare.Includes full alphabets, history and designer information, and a comprehensive index with page numbers and foundries.This is an essential desktop reference for all typographers, designers, desktop publishers and typophiles. ... Read more

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Outstanding Reference
Although this book was printed 15 years ago, it remains one of the best reference guides to type faces. Back when I was still working with type, when I needed to identify a type face, I turned to this book first. It's one of the few that show the entire alphabet (usually) in an easy to see size. It's still valuable today since many of the fonts are timeless classics. Another feature is the font listing (and brief showing) by foundry. Some of the foundries are now out of business so this is also a historical reference. If you plan to purchase the book, you might want to shop around for one since the price for the used copies varies greatly. Be sure you get a nice clean, unmarked copy, though. The paper for the pages and the cover are a bit thin and if the previous owner was careless with it, the book will show signs of usage (wear). I have two copies. One is my "working copy" and the other is my "bookshelf copy". Highly recommended to anyone that has an interst in type.

Invaluable Tool
it is such an invaluable tool to anyone that has to work with fonts.Publishers, Graphic Artist, Photographers, etc...

No need to pay more than $39.95
You can buy this book brand new at
http://www.precisiontype.com/

Font Reference Guide a Typesetters must!
I highly recommend!! It is an excellent font reference book for anyone that uses many fonts for production or personal use. Having an extensive "visual" of fonts makes matching up new client fonts so much easier. A must have for typsetters and graphic designers.

Identify A Font
The title sums it up. This is a reference for fonts. The sample print is very fine quality displaying listed fonts at their best. This is a book that has a place on any graphic artist's bookshelf. I thumb through this like a dictionary. So many fonts are listed this book would be huge if not for the fine weight of the paper it is printed on. This makes the book fragile for a frequently handled reference. This is my only regret. ... Read more

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Une auteure à découvrir
Ce recueil de nouvelles m'a été recommandé et prêté par une collègue de travail et au départ, je ne savais pas trop si j'allais apprécier.En fait, je ne sais trop pourquoi, ça ne m'inspirait pas.Je croyais que l'auteur ferait comme bien des auteurs de sa génération, de l'autofiction afin de mieux s'apitoyer sur leur pauvre sort.Et ça m'énerve au plus haut point.

Mais finalement j'ai découvert un genre tout à fait différent de ce à quoi je m'attendait.Nadine Bismuth a un don pour raconter les petits moments de la vie.Et de mettre le doigt sur le petit détail qui les rend singuliers, qui fait tout chavirer ou qui les mets dans une autre perspective.Il ne faut pas s'attendre à un recueil avec de gros "punchs" à la fin de chacune des histoires.On nous offre plutôt de la finesse, de la subtilité.Et c'est tout aussi efficace, sinon plus!

C'est donc une très belle découverte.Et à mon avis, voilà très certainement une auteure dont on entendra parler dans les prochaines années. ... Read more

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Indispensable archive for graphic artists and craftspeople contains 24 unique, copyright-free typefaces—all with capital letters and most with lower-case letters and numbers. Includes such lively and versatile fonts as Ambrosia, Carmen, Oceana, Odessa, Siegfried, and Titania. Ideal for adding a turn-of-the-century touch to signs, greeting cards, menus and other projects. Disk contains all items in book.
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You'll Surely Like These Fonts!
I bet you'll find several fonts here that will become favorites. Dan Solo had a huge collection of great old and new type faces. You'll find 24 of them here. The fonts are in both Windows True Type and Macintosh formats. The pages have the complete alphabets and a character chart. Be sure to notice the "extra characters" that are offered in some fonts.

Dan X Solo presents alot of nice fonts in clipart .
Dover has done alot to preserve the classic graphic artwork of the 19th & 20th century , presenting it as "copyright free" for minor use for those who would rather copy than make there own artwork . Here is achance to have those fonts at a reasonable price . Dan has done pretty goodin the past , but I would like to see what is on it before I buy it. On theother hand, Carol Belanger Grafton has given Dover much better qualitycollections and I would buy her work without question . Visual previewnecessary . ... Read more

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Typosphere is a comprehensive guide for typographers and graphic designers who are fascinated by the latest font designs and their use in editorial design.

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Unique Addition to Any Typophile's Library
This English-language reissue provides a quick overview of some important contemporary type designers and their creations. The authors review a fairly unique collection of typefaces in this compact book. Anyone interested in type design would appreciate this book on a few levels. First, it features sketches and development drawings of many typefaces in progress, showing some of the designers' thought process. Secondly, there are quite a few examples of the typefaces in use, which always gives a nice context to the types, since they can often look and feel quite different when just seen as an alphabet or specimen. Third, the authors provide nice insight into the qualities of many of the designs, pointing out some neat aesthetic and practical details which make them unique and interesting. I didn't necessarily agree completely with the authors' categorization of designs, and I would have liked to see more specimens of complete type families, but the editing and curation of types is delightful and the book is nicely fast-paced, with lots of illustrations. The price is right, too. ... Read more