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John D. Berry
John D. Berry (www.johndberry.com) is an editor/typographer who works both sides of the design/content divide. He has been writing about type for the past fifteen years, and he is the former editor and publisher of U&lc (Upper and lowercase) and U&lc Online.
dot-font: Tables of Contents
Features: Written by John D. Berry on March 21, 2007
The table of contents is the primary access point to what's in a publication. Don't just rush through it; done right, it's an exercise in information design.
dot-font: Importing Text
How-Tos: Written by John D. Berry on February 9, 2007
Learn how to import text into a page-layout program and have it come out the way you want it.
dot-font: Running Heads
Features: Written by John D. Berry on December 13, 2006
How to deal with those little scraps of text on a page that tell us what document we're reading, and where we are in it.
dot-font: The Best Brochure Fonts
How-Tos: Written by John D. Berry on November 15, 2006
Learn how to choose and use the right typeface for a brochure, flyer, or small booklet.
dot-font: Using Expert Characters and Expert Sets
How-Tos: Written by John D. Berry on October 23, 2006
For elegant, readable text, try the typographic refinements of expert sets and extra characters.
dot-font: Slanted Communication
Features: Written by John D. Berry on September 13, 2006
Italics can either help designers communicate or get in the way. Using them correctly separates the pro from the amateur, so read this primer if you don't want to look like a design beginner.
dot-font: Ten Tips for Top Type
Features: Written by John D. Berry on January 22, 2006
It doesn't take much to produce pages with type that looks professional and pleasing, and that's easy to read.
dot-font: Hermann Zapf at 87
Features: Written by John D. Berry on December 12, 2005
John D. Berry recently attended Linotype's celebration of Hermann Zapf's 87th birthday and the release of his new Palatino Nova type family. With this vivid first-hand account and lots of type links to follow, you'll feel like you were there, too!
dot-font: Is It Type, Or Is It Art?
Features: Written by John D. Berry on October 24, 2005
Oded Ezer practices a striking kind of typographic art, turning the letters of the Hebrew alphabet into performers on a photographic stage.
dot-font: Numbers Don't Lie
Features: Written by John D. Berry on September 23, 2005
In typesetting, numerals can take many forms. Here's a guide to some of the different ways numbers may appear.
dot-font: From Russia with Type
Features: Written by John D. Berry on August 17, 2005
Russian type design has something to teach the West.
dot-font: Fun with the Push Pin Legacy
Features: Written by John D. Berry on July 29, 2005
Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser set the graphic-design world on its ear in the late '50s with the "Push Pin Graphic."
dot-font: Paperback Reader
Features: Written by John D. Berry on June 29, 2005
John Downer's new type family Paperback is designed to work as a text face for ordinary books.
dot-font: Solid Language
Features: Written by John D. Berry on June 12, 2005
Robert Bringhurst's seminal essay about the nature and classification of written language is now available, revised and updated, in the form of a small, well-made book.
dot-font: Hauling Freight
Features: Written by John D. Berry on May 30, 2005
"Freight," designed by Josh Darden for Garage Fonts, takes a different approach to a three-pronged family of related typefaces.
dot-font: A Handful of Swiss Type
Features: Written by John D. Berry on May 16, 2005
Swiss designer/printer Romano Hänni brings the hot, tactile look of modern letterpress to the San Francisco Center for the Book.
dot-font: Twenty-five Years of Type
Features: Written by John D. Berry on May 2, 2005
As the Type Directors Club celebrates fifty years of competitions and twenty-five years of annuals, John D. Berry takes a look at the resulting book, "Typography 25."
dot-font: A Small Book of Typefaces
Features: Written by John D. Berry on April 18, 2005
John Berry examines Jeremy Tankard's TypeBookOne, a small, well-designed type-specimen book in the old tradition.
dot-font: Acrobatics -- Putting the Story on the Screen
Features: Written by John D. Berry on April 4, 2005
How do you meet the challenge of designing a PDF page for comfortable reading of a long piece of fiction -- onscreen? John Berry tells the saga.
dot-font: Big Pages, Flamboyant Typography
Features: Written by John D. Berry on March 21, 2005
John D. Berry takes a walk down the U&lc memory lane and wonders why no one is publishing a big, visually sophisticated magazine with experimental typography today.