10.11.2007

All Things Typographic from The Type Studio

Typo Infos from Genv.

Typographic tidings from The Type Studio!
Here's the 411:
--Top Ten Type Crimes
--TypeTalk: Stylistic sets to text boxes to point sizes to hyperlinks
--Pedestrian Typography
--Font Management Utilities
--Gourmet Typography Training

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Top Ten Type Crimes

Are you a type criminal?
Don't be afraid to confess; the type police won't come knocking at your door in the middle of the night.
Even the most seasoned designers can commit an occasional type crime, by accident or inattention.

If good typography is important to you, knowing and recognizing the "ten most wanted" type crimes will help make your projects stay on the right side of the law.

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TypeTalk: Stylistic sets to text boxes to point sizes to hyperlinks

Q. Is there any way to make an alternate OpenType character the default character for that font, without using the glyph palette or the preset categories?

A. Not really.
The closest you can come is to turn on the appropriate formatting that accesses the character.
Stylistic sets (available in InDesign CS3 and CS2, for fonts that have them) provide a pretty useful way of doing this.

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TypeTalk is my monthly question-and-answer column on typography sponsored by creativepro.com.
You ask, I answer! Send your questions to typetalk@thetypestudio.com.
(mailto:typetalk@thetypestudio.com)
If your question is published, you'll get an official creativepro.com T-Shirt!

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Pedestrian Typography

Pictures (with minimal commentary) of misspelled signage, grammar mishaps, and just
plain neato stuff seen on the streets captured by art director Carolyn Sewell.

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Font Management Utilities

People are still downoading this article like crazy, so I'm including it again.
Don't know which font management utility is best for you?

I discuss Extensis Suitcase Fusion, Font Agent Pro and Linotype FontExplorer in an article entitled Solve Your Font Problems
: How to beat your fonts into submission with three of the best font management utilities in a recent edition of Dynamic Graphics magazine.

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