Font Technology Methods and Tools [Paperback]

Computers have changed typography and prepress as well as printing. Typefaces are manufactured by digital punch cutters with a PC, not any more by punch cutters. Typefaces are constructed an output by a new technolgy, the so-called fonttechnology. The book by Peter Karow covers the whole area of it. It offers various chapters about (among others) issues like intelligent font scaling, kerning, quality of type, legibility, and problems of different output devices. It is interesting to read about Gutenberg setting, the font market, optical scaling, and last but not least a hand on Kanjhi, the Chinese/Japanese Glyphs. Furthermore, Fonttechnology contains a number of valuable and instructive appendices. Almost everything one has to know about type and computers!Computers have changed typography and prepress as well as printing. Typefaces are manufactured by digital punch cutters with a PC, not any more by punch cutters. Typefaces are constructed an output by a new technolgy, the so-called fonttechnology. The book by Peter Karow covers the whole area of it. It offers various chapters about (among others) issues like intelligent font scaling, kerning, quality of type, legibility, and problems of different output devices. It is interesting to read about Gutenberg setting, the font market, optical scaling, and last but not least a hand on Kanjhi, the Chinese/Japanese Glyphs. Furthermore, Fonttechnology contains a number of valuable and instructive appendices. Almost everything one has to know about type and computers!Directory.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Computer, like you and me.- Competition for the designer.- Putting type through the mincer.- Big shots.- Splines.- Big brother.- Programmers.- Machine control.- The art of math.- In brief.- Open questions to GGL.- Statistics.- Kerning.- Trapping (shrinking and spreading).- Kanji Metafont.- Sukeringu.- Machine formats.- Management.- 3. Typeface Market.- Typefaces are digital.- Standardlsš