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dot-font: Mr. Jefferson’s Typeface

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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Heavy Metal Madness: A Striking Art Form Burns Out

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that advertising-style matchbooks are on their way out, victims of state smoking bans and a market flooded with cheap disposable lighters. Apparently many restaurants and bars are switching to logo-adorned moist towlettes, fountain pens, and tiny notebooks as souvenir tchotchkes. Annual sales of matchbooks have dropped from $200 million […]

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InDesign Tips: Printing Transparency

Transparency is one of those features that designers love and printers hate. That’s because while transparency gives you the ability to create very cool-looking graphics, older PostScript RIPs are unable to process the files, which makes the people who try to output them very grumpy. So while forward-looking designers embraced InDesign for its transparency support, […]

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Font Fatigue: The Font Twilight Zone

A Surreal-world example for the uninitiated, or as Rod Serling might say, “Submitted for your approval”: Jim runs a print shop that specializes in newsletters. A variety of client page layout files (from QuarkXPress, InDesign, even Microsoft Word) come in every day. One day a client file arrives that uses Times and Helvetica. Pretty standard […]

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