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Summary: THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE.
Review: If it is not available, its not very useful, don't you think so?
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Summary: Best guide out there for making your own fonts
Review: In my day job as program manager for western language fonts at Adobe Systems, I'm often asked about books for people wanting to learn how to make their own digital fonts. This is the one I recommend first every time.Stephen Moye has quite simply written the best and at this time the only complete guide to making your own fonts. Information on how to construct outlines properly, spacing, kerning and more is all here. Importantly, this book is NOT only useful for people using Fontographer (which is a sadly out of date tool now); most of the information is equally useful for those working with FontLab or other modern font creation tools. Other books worth checking out for the would-be font-maker include Michael Harvey's Creative Lettering Today, Walter Tracy's Letters of Credit, and Alexander Lawson's Anatomy of a Typeface. Of course there's also Robert Bringhurst's classic Elements of Typographic Style, which should be owned and read by anyone who cares about type. I liked this book so much that I personally hand-bound mine as a hardcover, to make it last. In retrospect, with used softcover copies going for $300 each, it seems like I had the right idea!
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Summary: bad typesetting
Review: Negative Remarks: While this book maybe full of useful information, it is difficult to read. The type is set 14/18 with half inch indents on paragraphs. Rule of thumb, 14 point type, 14 point indent. I felt like I was junping to the next page when I started a new paragraph. It would be easier reading to have set the book in 12 point type, with 14 point leading, and 12 point indents. Positive Remarks: If the typesetting weren't so bad, the font chosen for the book was very nice.
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Summary: any guess as to when...?
Review: oops, i'm not writing a review just wondered if you have any idea when this book would be available. i check back every so often to find same msg. also wanted to grab this opportunity to tell you how pleased i am to do business with amazon. you guys are running your site right. congratulations.
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Summary: An Excellent Supplement to Macromedia's "Using Fontographer"
Review: Stephen Moye's book takes over where the Fontographer manual supplied by Macromedia leaves off. Whereas Macromedia's book is merely a software instruction manual which describes how to use the features of the program Mr. Moye describes in great detail how to effeciently design a font from start to finish. His strategy of using the similarities in the strokes, stems and serifs in a character set will save the font designer a lot of time and frustration. Even though the book was written with a slight bend towards the MacIntosh version of the software, it is equally useful for the Windows fontographer. It is surprising (and fortunate) that such a good-quality book has been written for a software program which is not as well known, and does have the large customer base as many other graphics programs.
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Summary: Ready to pay a full price for PDF version!
Review: There are no other book to replace this one. If the publisher cannot re-print it, then maybe he could make it available for downloading in PDF format? I would readily pay a full price!
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Summary: impresed by type-it is not a review
Review: Well, I am doing a typeface without manual and this book looks quite good in reateings. Bad, that is 1 year in reprinting. Is there somebody who now some other great manual about fontographer and url about doing type.
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