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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Typographic Basics | |
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| The State of the Art and How We Got Here | |
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| The Building Blocks of Type | |
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| Evolution and Automation | |
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| Desktop Publishing Alters the Rules | |
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| Output Resolution and Type Quality | |
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| Units of Typographic Measurement | |
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| Absolute Measurements | |
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| Relative Units | |
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| Other Units of Measure | |
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| About Typefaces | |
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| Definitions: Font versus Typeface | |
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| Type Design and the Em Square | |
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| Type Anatomy | |
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| Optical Aspects of Typeface Design | |
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| Size Changes Everything | |
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| Principal Features of Typefaces | |
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| Typefaces as Role Players: Text, Display, and Decorative | |
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| Classifying Typefaces by Historical Period | |
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| Typeface-Naming Issues | |
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| About Fonts | |
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| The Two Basic Kinds of Fonts: Outline and Bitmapped | |
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| What's in a Font? | |
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| Cross-Platform Font-Compatibility Issues | |
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| Finding the Characters You Need | |
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| Identifying Font Formats | |
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| The Basics of Font Management | |
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| Font-Editing Programs | |
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| The Basics of Using Typefaces | |
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| Readability | |
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| Traditional Roles for Seriffed and Sans Serif Types | |
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| Expressing Emphasis | |
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| Uses for Condensed and Extended Faces | |
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| Using Display Type | |
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| Using Decorative Type | |
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| Type in Color | |
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| Reverses | |
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| Typesetting versus Typewriting | |
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| Page Sizes and Line Lengths | |
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| Word Spaces | |
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| Line Endings and Carriage Returns | |
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| Typeface Choice and Point Size | |
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| Unavailable Characters | |
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| Tabs | |
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| Setting Type on a Personal Computer | |
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| Typesetting and the Word Processing Legacy | |
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| How WYSIWYG Works | |
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| How Operating Systems Manage Fonts | |
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| Font Embedding | |
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| Font Copyright Issues | |
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| What Makes Good Type Good (and Bad Type Bad) | |
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| Legibility and Readability | |
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| Type Color | |
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| Optical Effects and Alignment Problems | |
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| The Eyes Have It | |
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| How to Set Type | |
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| Measure, Point Size, and Leading | |
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| Line Length, or Measure | |
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| Leading | |
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| Typeface-Specific Considerations | |
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| Controlling Hyphenation and Justification | |
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| What Hyphenation and Justification Means | |
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| Controlling Word and Letter Spaces | |
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| Controlling Hyphenation | |
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| How Measure Affects H&J | |
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| Specifying Word-Space Ranges in Ragged-Margin Type | |
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| Specifying Word-Space Ranges in Text with Justified Margins | |
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| Specifying Letter-Space Ranges | |
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| Altering Character Widths during H&J | |
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| Testing Your H&J Values | |
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| Fixing and Avoiding Composition Problems | |
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| Aesthetic Rags | |
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| Kerning and Tracking | |
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| Definitions: Kerning and Tracking | |
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| Kerning in Practice | |
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| Using Tracking Controls | |
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| Managing Indention and Alignment | |
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| Kinds of Indents | |
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| Skews and Wraps | |
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| Alignments of Characters and Text Blocks | |
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| Visual Alignment | |
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| Special Characters and Special Situations | |
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| Extended Character Sets | |
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| Small Capitals | |
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| Old-Style Numbers | |
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| Ligatures, Logotypes, and Diphthongs | |
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| Swash Characters | |
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| Superiors, Inferiors, and Ordinals | |
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| Fractions | |
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| Dashes | |
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| Points of Ellipsis | |
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| Common Pi Characters | |
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| Accented Characters | |
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| Character-Specific Spacing Issues | |
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| Initial Capitals | |
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| Document Structures and Typographic Conventions | |
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| Structural Elements | |
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| Navigation Tools | |
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| Independent Text Units | |
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| Indexes | |
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| Bibliographies | |
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| Tables | |
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| The Structure of Tables | |
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| Table-Setting Techniques | |
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| Faking It | |
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| Language-Specific Issues | |
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| Character Sets | |
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| Hyphenation | |
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| Time Expressions | |
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| Currency Symbols | |
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| British English versus American English | |
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| French Typographic Conventions | |
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| Spanish Typographic Conventions | |
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| Italian Typographic Conventions | |
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| German Typographic Conventions | |
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| Typesetting with Style Sheets | |
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| How Style Sheets Work | |
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| Creating Style Sheets | |
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| Using Style Sheets | |
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| Output-Resolution Issues | |
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| The Advantages of High-Resolution Output | |
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| Type Onscreen | |
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| Typography and the World Wide Web | |
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| References | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |
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| Further Reading | |