Fonts

Chinese Mac

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. There is also a small…read more →

Helvetica

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 (2006)

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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 in-depth at font embedding and subsetting in PDFs, pros and…read more →

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