Adobe Press Books Adobe Type Library Reference Book

Are you trying to find just the right Font for your design, but find it hard to choose from the many fonts available? The Adobe Type Library Reference Book is a great first place to look. Choose from over 2, 200 high-quality typefaces, now available entirely in the cross-platform OpenType format, which promises to make font incompatibilities a thing of the past. Organized both alphabetically and by style, this book makes finding the right font easy. Specimen pages displaying every font in Adobe's enormous collection, including 60 new typefaces Typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers Design inspiration and expert advice on type selection An expanded section on the OpenType format to help you make the most of its expanded Character set and layout capabilities Explanations and illustrations of the distinguishing characteristics of different type styles-from a graceful Garalde Oldstyle to Adobe's new Opticals-as well as ornaments and symbols A chart showing the Adobe Western 2 character set, including the right Keyboard combinations to access different characters Listings for 31 Japanese fonts from Adobe