by Stephen Tiano | Feb 25, 2021 | book design, Tools, Typefaces
Back during the summer of 2007 I ran a piece in my still-young, original blog. “Four (Sometimes Multi-Part) Questions for Book Designers. Now that I have a website and a blog again I’m reposting my old blog pieces so that what I’ve had to say on book design and...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 24, 2021 | book design, Typefaces
With all apologies to Smashing Magazine … Smashing Magazine has posted the results of a survey they took, “35 Designers x 5 Questions”, that I found almost as helpful a piece to use as a starting point for brainstorming as any I have ever read. The one hitch is that...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 14, 2021 | Fonts, Typefaces
So I just found out that Type 1 fonts will no longer be supported by Adobe as of January, 2023. That’s less than two years before a large part of my rather extensive collection of fonts won’t be usable in my InDesign work. Type 1 fonts was the font format in use for...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 9, 2021 | Typefaces
For certain people, possessing a collection of fonts is a real kick. I am not embarrassed to admit that I fall into that category. I realized this when, after getting my first Macintosh computer, along with a LaserWriter NT and the accompanying resident...