Beyond The Mac is Not a Typewriter: More Typographic Insights and SecretsSince 1989, hundreds of thousands of Macintosh users have learned the basics of creating good-looking type from Robin Williams' classic primer, The Mac is not a typewriter. In this sequel, Robin guides you beyond the basics with hundreds of useful tips, techniques, and secrets for making any document beautiful and distinctive. Ranging from traditional typographic information such as how to improve the readability and legibility of a typeface, to tips on new technologies such as Adobe's multiple master fonts, Beyond the Mac is not a typewriter provides an unprecedented wealth of exciting and practical information. |
Contents
Beyond The Mac is not a typewriter 99 | xi |
A Brief History of Type | 19 |
Readability and Legibility | 31 |
Copyright | |
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Adobe PageMaker Aldus alignment Antique Olive apostrophe baseline shift body copy body text Bold bump captions Center Alley chapter choices Choosing a Typeface color columns Condensed create dash desktop publishing dingbats display type easier to read edge Eurostile expert sets extra space eyes flush left flush right Formata Garamond graphic grunge headlines heads and subheads indent initial caps kerning pairs large x-height leading value letter spacing letterforms ligatures line breaks line length linespace look lowercase letters menu Minion multiple master font Notice numbers oldstyle figures ornaments paragraph parentheses PHONE phrase picture fonts prime marks pull quotes punctuation QuarkXPress quotation marks sans serif script Semibold serif faces serif typefaces slab serif small caps small x-height strokes style sheet swash characters thin Trade Gothic trends typeface typewriter typographic visual weight William Saroyan word spacing x-height Zapf