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On a lighter note: we have a legal replacement for Comic Sans…Comic Neue

Skilled Workman Posted on July 14, 2015 by David BergslandJuly 14, 2015

One of the most maligned fonts in recent years is Comic Sans. I’ve never really understood why people (especially type pros) hate Comic Sans so bad. But then, it’s really not a part of my life. This is the new solution: Comic Neue! If you click on the image above it will take you to the page where you can download this for free. The change is fairly radical, but it does have a similar feel to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Font Design, News, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged comic sans, font, font design, new font, OpenType, reality, Typography | 1 Reply

A good article on kerning in InDesign magazine for July

Skilled Workman Posted on July 6, 2015 by David BergslandJuly 6, 2015

Kerning is that area of typography rarely talked about. Ilene Strizver has a good article on kerning, both what it is and how to accomplish it, in the July issue of InDesign magazine. One of the sure signs of a pro book designer is in the kerning of the heads and subheads. That along with solid widow, orphan, and runt control are major areas of page layout normally ignored completely by users of Words. Of course, the sad … Continue reading →

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Beautiful typography has sadly diminished

Skilled Workman Posted on April 28, 2015 by David BergslandDecember 11, 2021

There has been a disturbing trend lately of incredibly gorgeous fonts that make bad typography. How can that be? Beautiful typography has become very rare. To understand that, we need to look at what good typography is. I often tell my students and apprentices this general principle. Beautiful typography is not noticed! You notice and absorb the content. If you notice the typography or font, you are missing the purpose of your design. Here’s an example of a new font … Continue reading →

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Newly digitized Doves Type font designer finds old lead type in the Thames

Skilled Workman Posted on February 23, 2015 by David BergslandFebruary 25, 2015

Here’s a fun article from CreativePro about the process. Many people do not realize that a lot of the “free type” and a good deal of the professionally designed type is made from or started with digitized characters from printed works using old letterpress fonts outside of the copyright period (normally pre-1940, at this point, in most cases). Doves Press type is one of those   The link to the typespec.co.uk site gives more info on the  discovery. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Font Design, News, Recent Posts | Tagged digitized, Doves Press, font, Hammersmith Bridge, letterpress font, London, River Thames, Robert Green, Slab serif, type, Typography | Leave a reply

Variable type for ebooks?

Skilled Workman Posted on January 24, 2015 by David BergslandJanuary 24, 2015

There have been rumors around for several years now that multiple master fonts might not be gone completely, or that a new solution might be in the works. Nick Sherman wrote a long, but exciting article about the new possibilities on A List Apart. Superpolator (on the left) shows some exciting possibilities. My personal hope is for OpenType features in ePUBs. Variable type has some big guns behind it Recently, Adam Twardoch made a proposal along these same … Continue reading →

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Posted in ePUB3, Font Design, News, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged ebook, FontLab, Twardoch, Typography, typography. book design | Leave a reply

Writing and working in InDesign makes using it easy

Skilled Workman Posted on July 21, 2014 by David BergslandJuly 19, 2014

I was talking to a friend a couple days ago. He mentioned the primary trouble he has in using InDesign to format his books: when he gets into InDesign he can’t remember how to use it. Suddenly, it dawned on me that this is a primary reason why writing in InDesign is so effective. Not only is writing fully formatted in InDesign the best method of communicating clearly with your readers [outside of excellent content], the simple act … Continue reading →

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Posted in Author Writing, Book Design, Kindle book design, Readability, Recent Posts, Self-publishing, Typography, Writing In InDesign | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com, Book Design, CSS, ebook design, HTML, InDesign, lulu, Scrivener, smashwords, Typography | 5 Replies

Practical Font Design video course is up on Udemy

Skilled Workman Posted on April 18, 2014 by David BergslandOctober 28, 2017

I’ve finally gotten my practical font design video course up online and available for you. This is just practical stuff without any fancy theory or stuffy rules. This is just basic procedures to make a font with minimal effort. I let you watch as I design several fonts. I provide sample fonts. My goal is to help you get some fonts produced so that you can make your own designs with confidence. You’ll find many of my opinions, but … Continue reading →

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Reminder: PostScript fonts do not work in ePUBs

Skilled Workman Posted on February 15, 2014 by David BergslandFebruary 15, 2014

 Click to enlarge This capture shows you some of the different characters available in an OpenType font. This font, Contenu Book, has oldstyle figures [lowercase], lining figures [caps], & small cap figures. It also has true small caps, discretionary ligatures, ornaments, ordinals, and more. These things are always supposed to be used in print, even though only InDesign and Quark support such a thing for page layout AFAIK. I assume most of you know this, but I … Continue reading →

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Posted in Book Design, Book Production, ePUB, Recent Posts, Typography | Tagged Adobe InDesign, ebook typography, epub design, font, OpenType, small caps, Text figures, TrueType, Typography | Leave a reply

Why does list quality matter in your ePUB?

Skilled Workman Posted on January 27, 2014 by David BergslandJanuary 27, 2014

Yea, I know, here goes David off on another of his “professional quality” rants again…. But this one’s important! Lists are #3 in reading importance The studies I’ve seen [and please prove me wrong if you know better] show that, after picture captions and headlines, lists are third in reader importance. Many readers look for lists as they start skimming when they get bored. They assume that a list will give them a synopsis and let them … Continue reading →

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Desktop, laptop, or tablet?

Skilled Workman Posted on October 25, 2013 by David BergslandOctober 25, 2013

I found a good article today which explains many of the issues. My main issue with the conclusions is that I cannot be productive with a laptop. If you are just writing, an iPad with Apple’s wireless keyboard will do the job for you very well. The article misses my most important category of software apps: the Creative Cloud. My two most used apps [outside of Mail and Safari], are InDesign and Photoshop. I can easily see that … Continue reading →

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