fonts
Introducing GREP Styles (2)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Digitip 089 – Adobe InDesign CS4 – GREP your Figures
This is the second in a series of short GREP Style tutorials. I introduce GREP styles in the first post in this series. In this short tutorial we look at how we can use a GREP style to change the appearance of any figures within a [...]
A matter of points…
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
I’m analysing some InDesign files for a customer presently, and upon opening one of the files in InDesign the following dialog appeared. “This document’s setting for points/picas per inch differs from the current application setting. To change the document’s points/pica per inch setting, go to the Units & Increments panel in the Preferences dialog box”.
In [...]
How do I create fractions in InDesign?
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Digitip 075 – Adobe InDesign
InDesign out-of-the-box, does not contain a ‘Make Fraction” command, like other applications such as QuarkXPress have, so if you’re a Quark converter (Welcome a-board by the way!!!), how do you go abouts creating fractions in InDesign?
So how can setting fractions be made easier? Well, there are a number of options available. [...]
Dutch Type
Monday, March 10th, 2008
Jan Middendorp writes that his “interest in Letterforms and text faces by Dutch designers such as Hollander, Caecilia, Quadraat, Theses”, were the main triggers for writing his 2004 book “Dutch Type“.
As someone who used to carry a Dutch passport prior to swapping it for an Australian one over a decade ago, this book triggers more than [...]
Glossary of Typographic Terms
Monday, January 14th, 2008
From ‘Accent Mark’ to ‘X-height’. Typophile.com provides a very cool list of typographic terms. I have to admit there are plenty of terms on the list I’ve never heard of before… Did you know that an en-dash is sometimes called a Nut? Well I most certainly did not
Web-reference: Terminology (2007, Typophile)
Creative Suite 3 Fonts
Monday, June 11th, 2007
Thomas Phinney’s made a great list accessible on his weblog that provides an overview of all of the fonts that ship with the various Creative Suite 3 bundles, as well as which ones are being installed during a standard install.
Helvetica
Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Gary Hustwit has directed the film Helvetica:
"Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives."
Web Reference: Helvetica – A Documentary [...]
Fonts…
Friday, August 11th, 2006
It’s funny how when you are writing/developing course material, you realise you’re never 100% certain about the facts and I hate writing things down when I’m not 100% sure. So, here I found myself — the Adobe Certified Expert and print specialist — digging back into the archives, looking more indepth at [...]