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Choosing the right font can be one of the hardest parts of your job as a digital designer—there are literally thousands to choose from. One of the largest and most respected collections of high-quality fonts is the Adobe Type Library, now available entirely in the cross-platform OpenType® format, which promises to make font incompatibilities a thing of the past. Any designer who has struggled to find just the right typeface for a project will find this comprehensive reference an indispensable guide to Adobe’s vast selection of over 2,200 typefaces.

Organized both alphabetically and by style, the newly revised and updated
Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Third Edition provides:

• Specimen pages displaying every font in Adobe’s enormous collection, including 60 new typefaces

• Typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers

• Design inspiration and expert advice on type selection

• An expanded section on the OpenType format to help you make the most of its expanded character set and layout capabilities
  

• Explanations and illustrations of the distinguishing characteristics of different type styles—from a graceful Garalde Oldstyle to Adobe’s new Opticals—as well as ornaments and symbols

•  A chart showing the Adobe Western 2 character set, including the right keyboard combinations to access different characters

• Listings for 31 Japanese fonts from Adobe

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 10 Ratings

Ultimate & Handy Reference for any serious font user - 2008-02-17
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Any serious font user should have this book. Even you do not own the font, show it to your client and then buy when you need it.

Great Reference! - 2008-01-07
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This book is everything that I expected it to be. It sits on my desk and gets pulled out everytime I'm working on a project. Great investment.

Perfect for our needs - 2007-08-23
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Provided a nicely printed display of the fonts in fontfolio 10. Helps with clients choosing fonts they would like to use in thier designs as expected. Would have been nice to have in a hard cover since it is used a lot.

A good book for examples - 2008-08-08
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This book is exactly what it says. I would not have bought this book if it wasn't required for a class. For one, it is just a list of fonts on every page with different point size examples. Two, it will not help you with typography in any way. I prefer to make my own style books based on the fonts that I own. It is frustrating to look at fonts in a book that has fonts that I do not. The best thing about this book is the fact that it is what it is, a font style book. I will probably never open it again and will probably just use it to buy time with a client that doesn't know what kind of typeface they want.

Full of basic and detail information in this book - 2007-10-05
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I love this reference book!
It helps designers to choose a better typeface in an efficient way. Over 2,000 gorgeous fonts are arranged very well. Thanks for the make-up, paper and book-binding, you can browse these fonts pleasantly.
Basic OpenType introductions are included in English, French and German. Small icon shows glyph supported indicates the range of using of each typeface.
If you were a font afficionado, you would not miss it!

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