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Square-Serif Fonts Pack a Typographic Punch

May 4, 2011 22 comments
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Square-Serif Fonts Pack a Typographic Punch including Rockwell, Serifa, Memphis, American Typewriter and many others including Chunk Five.

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Typefaces I Can’t Live Without: Adobe Myriad Pro

February 24, 2011 20 comments
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Typefaces I Can’t Live Without: Adobe Myriad Pro, a versatile sans serif font that can be used in almost endless ways in typographic designs like book design

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Fun With Fonts—Identifont

February 11, 2011 5 comments
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Fun With Fonts—Identifont typeface identification and search functions for book designers and typographers

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Typefaces as History: Aldus Manutius and The Noble Bembo

October 22, 2010 10 comments
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Typefaces as History: Aldus Manutius and The Noble Bembo, showing how characters straight out of renaissance Italy influence the typefaces we use today.

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Do You Know These 5 Ways to Use Negative Space in Your Book Design?

September 28, 2010 12 comments
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Learning to give different elements of the book page more or less emphasis depends on intelligent use of “negative space” in chapter openers, subheads, leading and other areas of book design.

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