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Font Concepts

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I’ve called this book “Fonts and Layout for Global Scripts”, because I wanted it to be about the whole journey of getting text through a computer and out onto a display or a piece of paper. Having the fonts designed and engineered correctly is the first step in this; but there’s a lot more that needs to be done to use those fonts. There are a number of stages that the letters and numbers you want to typeset go through in order to become the finished product. To begin with, the user (or in some cases, the computer) will choose what font the text should be typeset in; the text, and the choice of font and other typographic details, are the inputs to the process. These two inputs pass through some or all of the following stages before the text is set: We can understand most of these steps by taking the analogy of letterpress printing. A compositor will be given the text to be set and instructions about how it is to look. The first thing they’ll do is find the big wooden cases of type conta

Shaping and layout Characters and glyphs Dimensions, sidebearings and kerns Units Advance widths Kerns Heights Vertical advance Advance and Positioning Bézier curves Color and bitmap fonts Shaping and layout I’ve called this book “Fonts and Layout for Global Scripts”, because I wanted it to be about the whole journey of getting text through a computer and out onto a display or a piece of paper. Having the fonts designed and engineered correctly is the first step in this; but there’s a lot more that needs to be done to use those fonts. There are a number of stages that the letters and numbers y

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