User Guide

hypertext form (included with Fontographer on its CD.] A
hard copy of this award-winning booklet defining
typographic terms is also in the Fontographer package.
Font & Function [Mountain View, California: Adobe
Systems] is Adobe’s biennial catalog of their latest font
offerings. But this tabloid size, four-color publication is also
quite a bit more. It includes articles on typographic history,
the background to many Adobe PostScript fonts, technical
information and a graphic listing of over 1500 Adobe fonts.
There’s no reason not to get this, especially since it is free
for the asking from: Adobe Systems Incorporated,
Attention: Font & Function, P.O. Box 7900, Mountain
View, CA 94039-7900.
The typEncyclopedia; a user’s guide to better
typography by Frank J Romano [New York: R.R.
Bowker Co., 1984. xii, 188 p. : ill.].
Type and typography; the designer’s type book by
Ben Rosen [New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1976
Rev. ed. 406 p. : ill.].
History of Printing
A Short History of the Printed Word by Warren
Chappell [Boston: Nonpareil Books (David Godine), 1980].
A once-over-very-lightly in 240 pages of large type, hitting
the highlights in the development of type, printing and
bookmaking.
Five Hundred Years of Printing by S. H. Steinberg
[Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974]. A 400-page small-print
paperback which is still in print, this covers Gutenberg
through the early 20th century. Steinberg’s style is a little
dry. Since his death, the book (starting with the third
edition) has been edited by James Moran.
A Dictionary of Book History by John Feather [New
York: Oxford University Press, 1986, 278 pp] is a concise
one-stop reference, in alphabetical order, to topics including
bibliography and bibliographical terminology, the history of
printing, the physical history of the book (including
typography, binding, etc.) and book collecting. It has over
650 articles ranging from a few lines to several pages, and
Fontographer User's Manual
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