This story is taken from “Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy.” Bert Monroy’s digital paintings are known for their photo-realism and natural details, such as dappled light filtering through tree leaves onto a polished desk or an ominous sky drenching Central Park with heavy rain. In this excerpt from his book, see how Monroy adds brooding […]
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With all the hand wringing over fonts in Mac OS X, you’d think that font problems are new. Let’s face it. Fonts have always been a bit troublesome for Mac users. Way back in 1985, when the LaserWriter first appeared, Mac-based designers learned that, unlike the spiffy new PostScript fonts, the Mac’s original “city fonts” […]
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dot-font was a collection of short articles written by editor and typographer John D. Barry (the former editor and publisher of the typographic journal U&lc) for CreativePro. If you’d like to read more from this series, click here. Eventually, John gathered a selection of these articles into two books, dot-font: Talking About Design and dot-font: Talking […]
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