Your official guide to the Adobe Type Library!

Choosing the right type for your designs can be one of the hardest parts of your job as a digital designer. There are thousands of fonts available and the choices can be overwhelming. With more than 2,400 fonts, the Adobe Type Library represents one of the largest and most respected collections of top-quality type available. This comprehensive guide makes it easy to select fonts for purchase from Adobe’s vast library at www.adobe.com.

The Adobe Type Library Reference Book:

• Demonstrates the distinguishing characteristics of different type styles

• Explains the ins and outs of type innovations such as OpenType�

• Offers type inspiration and type selection

• Organizes type alphabetically and by style

• Shows the characters for each typeface, plus useful reference charts with standard character sets for Windows� and Mac OS�

• Features typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers

• Includes an easy-to-use Quick Reference providing a useful overview of all the fonts contained inside the book

From the Back Cover

Choosing the right font can be one of the hardest parts of your job as a digital designer―there are literally thousands to choose from. One of the largest and most respected collections of high-quality fonts is the Adobe Type Library, now available entirely in the cross-platform OpenType� format, which promises to make font incompatibilities a thing of the past. Any designer who has struggled to find just the right typeface for a project will find this comprehensive reference an indispensable guide to Adobe’s vast selection of over 2,200 typefaces.

Organized both alphabetically and by style, the newly revised and updated
Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Third Edition provides:

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

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