Adobe’s Bickham Script and House Industries’ Ed Interlock display two different approaches to using OpenType’s contextual substitution.

How to tell if a font is trash or treasure, regardless of its cost.

Let’s look at a few examples of table of contents — the good and the bad.

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro.  If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: […]

Learn the best practices for designing these inconspicuous but essential book page elements.

How to make good choices about typefaces for projects that are a few pages long or less.

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro.  If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: […]

History and usage of italic and oblique type

A ten-step training plan for font fitness

dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro.  If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: […]