Author: Stephen Moye
Publisher: Mis Pr
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 1150323

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8 x 0.8

ISBN: 1558284478
Dewey Decimal Number: 686.22544536
EAN: 9781558284470
ASIN: 1558284478

Publication Date: September 1995
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Product Description
Fontographer: Type by Design is a comprehensive guide to typeface design and editing with Fontographer. Topics covered include: modifying PostScript typeface, problem-free printing, addressing TrueType problems, incorporating complex characters, creating "morphed" faces, using Fontographer with Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Freehand, and shortcuts for editing PostScript fonts with popular software. Fontographer: Type by Design also discusses legal issues like copyright of typeface designs.

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2 out of 5 stars

bad typesetting July 3, 2003
1 out of 8 found this review helpful

Negative Remarks: While this book maybe full of useful information, it is difficult to read. The type is set 14/18 with half inch indents on paragraphs. Rule of thumb, 14 point type, 14 point indent. I felt like I was junping to the next page when I started a new paragraph. It would be easier reading to have set the book in 12 point type, with 14 point leading, and 12 point indents.

Positive Remarks: If the typesetting weren't so bad, the font chosen for the book was very nice.

5 out of 5 stars PLEASE PLEASE BRING IT BACK January 15, 2003
I really want this book and would jump for joy if it was in print again!! I have heard that this is the best book for understanding how to use and master Fontographer. I have the software and am really struggling with the undesirable manuel!! PLEASE BRING IT BACK?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

5 out of 5 stars Best guide out there for making your own fonts December 6, 2002
9 out of 10 found this review helpful

In my day job as program manager for western language fonts at Adobe Systems, I'm often asked about books for people wanting to learn how to make their own digital fonts. This is the one I recommend first every time.

Stephen Moye has quite simply written the best and at this time the only complete guide to making your own fonts. Information on how to construct outlines properly, spacing, kerning and more is all here. Importantly, this book is NOT only useful for people using Fontographer (which is a sadly out of date tool now); most of the information is equally useful for those working with FontLab or other modern font creation tools.

Other books worth checking out for the would-be font-maker include Michael Harvey's Creative Lettering Today, Walter Tracy's Letters of Credit, and Alexander Lawson's Anatomy of a Typeface. Of course there's also Robert Bringhurst's classic Elements of Typographic Style, which should be owned and read by anyone who cares about type.

I liked this book so much that I personally hand-bound mine as a hardcover, to make it last. In retrospect, with used softcover copies going for $300 each, it seems like I had the right idea!

5 out of 5 stars Ready to pay a full price for PDF version! March 22, 2000
There are no other book to replace this one. If the publisher cannot re-print it, then maybe he could make it available for downloading in PDF format? I would readily pay a full price!

4 out of 5 stars BRING IT BACK! BRING IT BACK! March 11, 2000
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

I could not agree more, gret software lousy documentation. This is an essential tool in the graphic arts/design arsenal, it is only appropriate to have high quality documentation to go with it! Stephen Moye is at the top of his game on this, I have seen it and want it!