The Complete Manual of Typography

This book is about how type should look and how to make it look that way - in other words, how to set type like a professional. Beautifully designed and richly illustrated 'The Complete Manual of Typography, 2nd Edition', is an essential reference for enyone who works with type. It covers typographic tools i the newest versions of major page-layout propgrams, as well as Mac os and Windows, Unicode, and OpenType fonds with expanded character sets; techniques for locating hard-to-find characters; and the latest word on type for the Web (including css3)

Designers, print production professionals, and corporate communications managers can go to straight to the index to find focused answers to specific questions, while educators and students can read it as a text book from cover to cover.

You'll Learn:
- What makes good type good (and bad type bad)
- How to manage fonts and handle corrupted or missing fonts on any operating system
- Techniques for working with measure, point-size, leading, kerning, and other precise type controls
- Practical ways to fix composition problems such as loose lines, bad rags, windows, and orphans
- Hard-to-find rules for managing hyphenation and justification, indention, alignments, and text wraps.
- How to trust your eyes instead of your computer programs.