
John D. Berry
About
John D. Berry is a typographer, book designer, design writer, editor, and typographic consultant. He is a former President of ATypI, and he is the founder and director of the Scripta Typographic Institute.
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See all articlesContextual Alternates in OpenType Fonts
Adobe's Bickham Script and House Industries' Ed Interlock display two different approaches to using OpenType's contextual substitution.
What Good Are Free Fonts?
How to tell if a font is trash or treasure, regardless of its cost.
dot-font: Tables of Contents
Let's look at a few examples of table of contents — the good and the bad.
dot-font: Importing Text
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: […]
dot-font: Designing Running Heads
Learn the best practices for designing these inconspicuous but essential book page elements.
dot-font: The Best Brochure Fonts
How to make good choices about typefaces for projects that are a few pages long or less.
dot-font: Using Expert Characters and Expert Sets
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: […]
dot-font: Hermann Zapf at 87
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: […]