John D. Berry

dot-font: Tables of Contents

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

Learn how to import text into a page-layout program and have it come out the way you want it.

dot-font: Running Heads

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

Learn how to choose and use the right typeface for a brochure, flyer, or small booklet.

dot-font: Using Expert Characters and Expert Sets

For elegant, readable text, try the typographic refinements of expert sets and extra characters.

dot-font: Slanted Communication

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

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

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?

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

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

Russian type design has something to teach the West.

dot-font: Fun with the Push Pin Legacy

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

John Downer's new type family Paperback is designed to work as a text face for ordinary books.

dot-font: Solid Language

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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.