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3 Typefaces for Books from Adobe’s Robert Slimbach

by Joel Friedlander on January 11, 2016 4 Comments

“Which typefaces should I use for my book?” That’s probably the question I get asked most often. It’s also the most frustrating. After all, I haven’t seen your book. I don’t know what it’s about or who it’s for or how you’re going to produce it. All of those impress themselves on the decision. Armed […]

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: Carol Twombly, Garamond, Jenson, Minion, Robert Slimback, typograpy

Kindle’s New Bookerly Font and Other Typography Features

by Joel Friedlander on June 22, 2015 24 Comments

Kindle’s New Bookerly Font and Other Typography Features looks at recent changes for ebooks and e-readers

Filed Under: Book Design, E-Books & Readers, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe, Amazon Kindle, book design, Bookerly, Carol Twombly, Chaparral, ebook, fonts

5 Favorite Fonts with Hidden Type Ornaments

by Joel Friedlander on April 2, 2012 21 Comments

5 Favorite Fonts with Hidden Type Ornaments shows samples from Minion Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, Chaparral Pro, Zapfino and Warnock Pro

Filed Under: Book Design, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Systems, book design, Carol Twombly, Chaparral Pro, fonts, Linotype Typography, Minion Pro, Richard Slimbach, typography, Warnock Pro, Zapfino

Typefaces I Can't Live Without: Adobe Myriad Pro

by Joel Friedlander on February 24, 2011 31 Comments

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

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: Adobe, Adrian Frutiger, book design, Carol Twombly, font, Frutiger, myriad, myriad pro, Optima, popular typefaces, Robert Slimbach, sans serif, typeface, typographic design, typography, Univers

Book Design to Sell: Fonts for Books

by Joel Friedlander on January 21, 2011 11 Comments

Book Design to Sell: Fonts for Books with Laura Cross. In an interview Joel Friedlander talks about how to choose fonts for self-published books

Filed Under: Book Design, Interviews, Self-Publishing Tagged With: Adobe fonts, book design, Carol Twombly, Expert-Entrepreneur, fonts for books, Laura Cross, self publish book, self-publish a book, typefaces, typographic design, typography

Carol Twombly, An Extraordinary Type Designer

by Joel Friedlander on March 19, 2010 28 Comments

When you’re working with type every day, you become sensitive to type design, an area of subtle refinement and architecture on a very small scale. Book designers, of course, are particularly interested in text typefaces for setting long documents, but typefaces in general are objects of unique attraction, interest, even mystery. Most of the notable […]

Filed Under: Book Design Tagged With: Adobe, Adobe Caslon, Carol Twombly, Charlemagne, Charles Bigelow, Trajan, typeface design

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