Typographic tidings from The Type Studio! Here's the 411: -- Top Ten Type Crimes
-- TypeTalk: Stylistic sets to text boxes to point sizes to hyperlinks
-- Pedestrian Typography
-- Font Management Utilities -- Gourmet Typography Training
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Top Ten Type Crimes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Are you a type criminal? Don't be afraid to
confess; the type police won't come knocking
at your door in the middle of the night. Even
the most seasoned designers can commit an
occasional type crime, by accident or
inattention.If good typography is important to you, knowing and recognizing the "ten most wanted" type crimes will help make your projects stay on the right side of the law. Click here for the entire fy(t)i article.
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TypeTalk: Stylistic sets to text boxes to point sizes to hyperlinks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Q. Is there any way to make an
alternate OpenType character the default
character for that font, without using the
glyph palette or the preset categories?A. Not really. The closest you can come is to turn on the appropriate formatting that accesses the character. Stylistic sets (available in InDesign CS3 and CS2, for fonts that have them) provide a pretty useful way of doing this. Read on... TypeTalk is my monthly question-and-answer column on typography sponsored by creativepro.com. You ask, I answer! Send your questions to typetalk@thetypestudio.com. If your question is published, you'll get an official creativepro.com T-Shirt!
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Pedestrian Typography ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pictures (with minimal commentary) of
misspelled signage, grammar mishaps, and just
plain neato stuff seen on the streets
captured by art director Carolyn Sewell. Check
it out...
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Font Management Utilities ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
People are still downoading this article like
crazy, so I'm including it again. Don't know
which font management utility is
best for you? I discuss Extensis Suitcase
Fusion, Font Agent Pro and Linotype
FontExplorer in an article entitled
Solve Your
Font Problems: How to beat your fonts into
submission with
three of the best font management
utilities in a recent edition of Dynamic
Graphics
magazine.Read the article online. To download a PDF, click here and click on the link.
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Gourmet Typography Training ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gourmet Typography Training teaches and
demonstrates the expert-level typographic
skills and
aesthetics that are rarely taught in schools or
fully understood by professionals. Fill in
the gaps in your typographic know-how and
learn how to "see" type like you've never seen it
before.Bring Gourmet Typography Training right to your company, school or organization! Training workshops are customized for groups of any size and designed to fit your specific needs. Sessions are scheduled for your convenience – daytime, evenings or weekends. We will design a program customized for your particular requirements.
For more information, click
here or call The Type Studio at (203)
227-5929.
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