Fonts
Fontographer… It’s back
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
I received an interesting email from FontLab today… announcing the return of Fontographer. A new version (5) of Fontographer has just been released for Mac and PC. So Fontographer has come back to life after more than a decade of being in hybernation.
I used Fontographer in the very early days, and if I dig into [...]
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)
Unicode Values
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Digitip 056 – Adobe InDesign CS3
Unicode values are the unique numerical value assigned to literal characters. In InDesign you’ll see them predominantly used for Find/Changes or Scripting.
How can I find the Unicode Value for a particular character? Other than visiting the official Unicode web-site and accessing the Character charts, how would we find those Unicode [...]
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.
Chinese Mac
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Unicode support in Adobe InDesign allows for inclusion of Chinese text in the English version of the application. Erik Rasmussen has for some time, and with help of many others put together an excellent Chinese Mac web-site, providing many tips, tricks and step-by-step instructions on making Chinese text on an English Mac OSX system work. [...]
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 [...]