Gizmag has an interesting article today about color e-Ink. They claim it will not have any impact on ereaders. I hope they are wrong. Paperwhites, and their ilk, are one of the largest drags of ebook publishing today. They are great for simple novels and white papers. They are quite bad for non-fiction with its need for complex lists, large tables, color images, and so on. Color e-ink could bring the most popular ereaders to a new … Continue reading →
I’ve always disliked QuarkXPress. Even when it was king of the hill, I was using PageMaker and InDesign 1.0. But there’s no denying that it was King—until it shot itself in the foot. It treated it’s customers very poorly, and its upgrade policies were ridiculously expensive. When InDesign came out with unlimited redoes, OpenType support, no need for a separate frame tool, and dozens of other major features, Quark was left behind, very rapidly. Is InDesign the … Continue reading →
Hoefler&Co. posted an excellent article this morning about italic fonts. It covers a dozen varieties (though it seems like more), plus it explains some of the reasons why italics end up with the designs which seem so far from normal.
Continue reading →This is the release of the fifteen-font package for book design which I developed in the writing of Practical Font Design With FontLab 5. It is a further development of the Contenu/Buddy group. Click here to purchase the Librum Book Design Group The x-heights are larger, it’s slightly narrower, and the general design is a bit more conservative. There is a serif text family, named Librum, for body copy, and a companion serif ebook family, named Librum … Continue reading →
I’m looking for reviewers Click the headline above and let me know what format you want. I recommend the PDF in spreads or the ePUB FXL [also in spreads]. This way you can get the formatting advantages of the print version in digital form. This is especially true if you have one of the earlier editions. I need feedback on the superiority of the new workflow. I know it works much better for me. I need to … Continue reading →
One of the favorite books I’ve written in the past few years is The Training Place of Mankind: God’s Creation Explained For Normal Folk. It’s a retail read geared toward the bible teacher looking for something more understandable. It’s not rigidly scientific. As far as I am concerned, that battle has been fought and won. If you want more explanations of the content with a couple of reviews, check out the page. The scriptural arguments are compelling It’s a fun … Continue reading →
These are the fonts produced for the new book The 15 fonts developed for Practical Font Design With FontLab 5 are being released as part of book release. These are superior fonts for book design incorporating what I have learned in 40 years of graphic design and over 20 years of font design. I published the specimen book with InDesign CC’s Publish Online ability. You can download a free PDF if you would like one. The Librum Production … Continue reading →
May 2016 be a blessing to you! You were certainly a blessing to me in 2015. Thank you!
Continue reading →Click on the image to find links to download the free trial, buy a subscription, or whatever. This is always a big day for me. I’ve been working getting ready for the changes, so I can help you with any questions. Again, this go-round, there’s not much for book production. OpenType and Glyph Features There are new features to help with OpenType glyph choices. They are available from the Font Menu, from contextual menus when selecting characters [right-click], and there’s … Continue reading →
As you know, most of the free image resources are not worth the time to look through them. The Getty Search Gateway has a huge quantity of images. Getty’s new offering is better than most, because it is well catalogued with a good search engine. Careful! You can waste a lot of time…
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