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Edward Mendelson
Edward Mendelson has been writing about computers and typography since 1985 and has been a contributed editor at PC Magazine since 1988. He wrote a monthly column on type for Windows Sources, and has written about the visual arts for Art News, the London Review of Books, and the (London) Times Literary Supplement. He spends hours poring over specimen books of hot-metal typefaces and is a professor of English at Columbia University.
Adobe InDesign Brings OpenType to the Desktop
Features: Written by Edward Mendelson on July 11, 2000
As discussed in the first part of this series, OpenType is a new font format that promises to bring creative professionals the best of all possible typographic worlds.
OpenType Ushers in New Era of Typography
Features: Written by Edward Mendelson on June 20, 2000
Adobe and Microsoft's initial goal with OpenType was to create a format that would let Windows users work with Type 1 font data without installing special software. But the two firms took the opportunity to extend their existing formats to add advanced typographic features missing from earlier versions.