... at the firm: Without typography, graphic design is merely fine art. Without typography, graphic Without typography, graphic ... and phototype came into their own, the traditional print trades got skewed (screwed?). Typesetters now worked for type houses ...

Forum topic - Eric_West - 18 Sep 2005 - 9:36am - 108 comments - 0 attachments

... Hebrew, where the language is structured according to very fine and tight rules of logic, higher than human reasoning. For example. ... those products, but a few years ago, only this one Soncino print edition in English only had a topic index. The other products only have a ...

Forum topic - gohebrew - 8 Aug 2008 - 8:26am - 307 comments - 0 attachments

... Quark. E-mail coming to you, Joe Clark. powers Print Action, the Canadian Print Action, the Canadian trade magazine, ... those programs from iView. I’m sure Bridge is a fine software and probably just need to sit down with someone who can show me ...

Forum topic - joeclark - 18 Feb 2008 - 7:34am - 65 comments - 0 attachments

... or digital, offset or monitor. Would you attempt to print a finely-detailed 19th century face designed for coated paper on a laid ... other examples). But when compared to either of these two fine works, Arial’s flaws are even more apparent. Helvetica and Univers, ...

Forum topic - hanabot - 18 Nov 2007 - 8:02pm - 147 comments - 0 attachments

... but a) maybe not & b) you seems to have some mighty fine stuff! Your design does remind me of Amalia because it has many ... facing Unger and Carter are largely overcome (at least in print), and yet Swift and Charter still seem fresh and vital. The continued ...

Forum topic - Eben Sorkin - 4 Feb 2008 - 6:50pm - 104 comments - 0 attachments

... book I thought of : The Non-Designer’s Scan and Print Book . My experience, I have been teaching DTP last two years and I ... ID. For my needs [black type, no jackets], Quark is just fine, and I wait for eight. But ID does seem to be the better tool for a lot of ...

Forum topic - _Palatine_ - 8 Oct 2008 - 6:59pm - 15 comments - 0 attachments

... LT Std 45 Light. How small can I go with this before its print quality starts to get questionable? I’ve never worked with ... too small still? :) too small still? :) Looks fine to me. 7pt type Looks fine to me. 7pt type on business cards is pretty ...

Forum topic - rosem - 30 Sep 2008 - 4:55pm - 15 comments - 0 attachments

... Hi Rob The convention in Hi Rob The convention in fine art and illustration is that when you do a piece in a known style you sign ... theft. I’m not sure if they still run this, but Print Magazine has run some columns from the encyclopaedic Steven Heller ...

Forum topic - rob_luciani - 2 Oct 2006 - 6:47pm - 80 comments - 3 attachments

... the relationship between x-height and readability is to print various typefaces at various size/leading settings. I will post a PDF ... Go figure. Remember that much of the world does just fine reading arabic, which at first glance looks like a flatlining EKG, with ...

Forum topic - DanGayle - 14 Feb 2007 - 10:19am - 73 comments - 0 attachments

... need declotting. “W”: I think it’s fine. “g”: lowest curve too thick. “y”: Just ... bdpq: thinned bowels a bit. they were too heavy in print. g: slightly less weight, based on my printing results. k: lower part ...

Forum topic - Sebastian Nagel - 25 Jun 2008 - 1:28pm - 70 comments - 16 attachments