Product Description

Choosing the right font can be one of the hardest parts of your job as a digital designer—there are literally thousands to choose from. One of the largest and most respected collections of high-quality fonts is the Adobe Type Library, now available entirely in the cross-platform OpenType® format, which promises to make font incompatibilities a thing of the past. Any designer who has struggled to find just the right typeface for a project will find this comprehensive reference an indispensable guide to Adobe’s vast selection of over 2,200 typefaces.

Organized both alphabetically and by style, the newly revised and updated
Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Third Edition provides:

• Specimen pages displaying every font in Adobe’s enormous collection, including 60 new typefaces
• Typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers
• Design inspiration and expert advice on type selection
• An expanded section on the OpenType format to help you make the most of its expanded character set and layout capabilities
  
• Explanations and illustrations of the distinguishing characteristics of different type styles—from a graceful Garalde Oldstyle to Adobe’s new Opticals—as well as ornaments and symbols
• A chart showing the Adobe Western 2 character set, including the right keyboard combinations to access different characters
• Listings for 31 Japanese fonts from Adobe

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #226466 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-27
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Book Info
Displays the characters or each typeface, plus contains useful reference charts with standard expert character sets for Windows and Mac OS. Features typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers. Softcover.

Customer Reviews

Ultimate & Handy Reference for any serious font user
Any serious font user should have this book. Even you do not own the font, show it to your client and then buy when you need it.

Great Reference!
This book is everything that I expected it to be. It sits on my desk and gets pulled out everytime I'm working on a project. Great investment.

Full of basic and detail information in this book
I love this reference book!
It helps designers to choose a better typeface in an efficient way. Over 2,000 gorgeous fonts are arranged very well. Thanks for the make-up, paper and book-binding, you can browse these fonts pleasantly.
Basic OpenType introductions are included in English, French and German. Small icon shows glyph supported indicates the range of using of each typeface.
If you were a font afficionado, you would not miss it!