Adobe Type Library Reference Book

by Adobe Creative Team and Adobe Systems, Inc.

Book Overview

A comprehensive guide to the Adobe Type Library, this book is organized both alphabetically and by style in order to be useful for type inspiration and type selection. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321136462
• ISBN13: 9780321136466
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Ultimate & Handy Reference for any serious font user

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.

Full of basic and detail information in this book

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!

Perfect for our needs

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.

Indispensable index saves time

I have zillions of fonts on my computer, but only have the essentials loaded in my Font Book, so this guide helps me find the fonts I want. It is essential for anyone who needs special fonts or someone who is, like me, picky about which fonts are used in a project. There is a section at the beginning of the book that has an easy guide to types of fonts, then there are sections with fonts grouped according to their characteristics such as serif, sans serif, script, etc. Then in the back, each font is listed and a the entire font family is printed as well as a sentence, too, so you can see how it looks and flows. I love it.

I love this Timesaving Reference Book

Adobe's fonts are so widely available in the otf format (they explain it in the book) that I try to use them whenever possible. This book makes it easy to find the fonts I need.