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Font Technology

Methods and Tools

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  • © 1994

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Authors:
  1. Peter Karow

    1. URW Software Type GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Karow
    Pages 1-5

  3. Computer, like you and me

    • Peter Karow
    Pages 7-40

  4. Typeface Market

    • Peter Karow
    Pages 41-58

  5. Font Production in past and present

    • Günther Flake
    Pages 59-76

  6. Third Abstraction

    • Ralf Funke
    Pages 77-84

  7. Font Technology

    • Peter Karow
    Pages 85-104

  8. Intelligent Font Scaling

    • Peter Karow
    Pages 105-149

  9. Effects of Rasterization

    • Peter Karow
    Pages 151-172

  10. Letter Spacing

    • Bodo Kämmle
    Pages 173-192

  11. Display, Text and Poster

    • Peter Karow
    Pages 193-212

  12. Type Quality

    • Peter Karow
    Pages 213-270

  13. Legibility

    • Dirk Wendt
    Pages 271-306

  14. Biblica

    • Dirk Wendt
    Pages 307-312

  15. Golden Type

    • Helga Jörgensen, Sigrid Engelmann, Andrew Newton
    Pages 313-320

  16. Kanji

    • Andreas Harms
    Pages 321-342

  17. Classifying Typefaces according to DIN

    • Karl H. von Warkentin
    Pages 343-358

  18. Copyright

    • Peter Rosenfeld
    Pages 359-378

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 379-457
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About this book

Computers have changed typography and prepress as well as printing. Typefaces are manufactured by "digital punch cutters" with a PC, not any more by punch cutters. Typefaces are constructed an output by a new technolgy, the so-called fonttechnology. The book by Peter Karow covers the whole area of it. It offers various chapters about (among others) issues like intelligent font scaling, kerning, quality of type, legibility, and problems of different output devices. It is interesting to read about Gutenberg setting, the font market, optical scaling, and last but not least a "hand on" Kanjhi, the Chinese/Japanese Glyphs. Furthermore, Fonttechnology contains a number of valuable and instructive appendices. Almost everything one has to know about type and computers!

Authors and Affiliations

  • URW Software Type GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

    Peter Karow

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Font Technology

  • Book Subtitle: Methods and Tools

  • Authors: Peter Karow

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78505-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-78507-8Published: 15 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-78505-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 457

  • Topics: Natural Language Processing (NLP)

  • Industry Sectors: IT & Software, Telecommunications

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