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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 | |