Fonts & Encodings: From Advanced Typography to Unicode and Everything in Between

by Yannis Haralambous, P Scott Horne (Translator)

This reference is a fascinating and complete guide to using fonts and typography on the Web and across a variety of operating systems and application software. Fonts & Encodings shows you how to take full advantage of the incredible number of typographic options available, with advanced material that covers everything from designing glyphs to developing software that creates and processes fonts.

The era of ASCII characters on green screens is long gone, and industry leaders such as Apple, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle have adopted the Unicode Worldwide Character Standard. Yet, many software applications and web sites still use a host of standards, including PostScript, TrueType, TeX/Omega, SVG, Fontlab, FontForge, Metafont, Panose, and OpenType. This book explores each option in depth, and provides background behind the processes that comprise today's "digital space for writing": Nowhere else will you find the valuable technical information on fonts and typography that software developers, web developers, and graphic artists need to know to get typography and fonts to work properly.

Genres: Reference

1035 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Bahman Eslami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely love it! I think anyone who considers type design or font developing seriously, should read this before doing any work. How we got here with Unicode and why things are done a certain way is explained in a nice story by Yannis.

[Michał · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous reading. Lots of interesting details, hard to find anywhere else.

[Mark A.]

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