عنوان

Beyond The Mac is not a typewriter :

(Number (ISBN

0201885980

(Number (ISBN

9780201885989

Erroneous ISBN

1201885980

Title Proper

Beyond The Mac is not a typewriter :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

more typographic insights and secrets /

First Statement of Responsibility

Robin Williams.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Berkeley, Calif. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Peachpit Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiii, 222 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes index.

Text of Note

Anatomy of Type -- 1. Centuries of Type -- Aldus Manutius -- 2. The Art of Readability -- 3. The Art of Legibility -- 4. Quotation Marks and not Quotation Marks -- 5. Hang that Punctuation -- 6. Punctuation Style -- 7. When to Shift that Baseline -- 8. Expert Sets -- 9. Small Caps -- 10. Oldstyle Figures -- 11. Ligatures -- 12. Condensed and Extended Type -- 13. Display Type -- 14. Kerning -- 15. Linescaping (leading) -- 16. Paragraph Spacing -- 17. Alignment -- 18. Headlines and Subheads -- 19. Pull Quotes -- 20. Captions -- 21. Emphasizing Type -- 22. Line Breaks and Hyphenation -- 23. Swash Characters -- 24. Initial Caps -- 25. Typographic Color -- 26. Ornaments and Dingbats -- 27. Pi and Picture Fonts -- 28. Don't be a Wimp! -- 29. Evocative Typography -- 30. Multiple Masters -- 31. Choosing a Typeface -- 32. Telltale Signs of Desktop Publishing -- 33. Trends in Type / John Tollett -- Appendix A. font vendors -- Appendix B. fonts used in this book.

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Since 1989, hundreds of thousands of Macintosh users have learned the basics of creating good-looking type from Robin Williams' classic primer, The Mac is not a typewriter. In this sequel, Robin guides you beyond the basics with hundreds of useful tips, techniques, and secrets for making any document beautiful and distinctive. Ranging from traditional typographic information such as how to improve the readability and legibility of a typeface, to tips on new technologies such as Adobe's multiple master fonts, Beyond the Mac is not a typewriter provides an unprecedented wealth of exciting and practical information.

Parallel Title

Mac is not a typwriter

Computerized typesetting.

Desktop publishing.

Computerized typesetting.

Computers.

Desktop publishing.

Typografie.

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Williams, Robin,1953-

Date of Transaction

20200822093601.0

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[Book]

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