[texhax] Fonts for Beginners

[William Adams]

On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Paul Stanley wrote:

> Does the list recommend a text on the subject of fonts for a complete beginner?

What aspect?

If you mean for installation into old styles of TeX, then Philipp
Lehman's Font Installation Guide:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/

If you mean ``just'' using them, then von Bechtolsheim's _TeX in Practice_ Vol. 2: Paragraphs, Math, and Fonts_ is quite good.

If you mean installing and using them in interesting ways, then Alan Hoenig's _TeX Unbound_:

http://www.amazon.com/TeX-Unbound-LaTeX-Strategies-Graphics/dp/019509686X

If you mean using them in a ``modern'' TeX system then Will Robertson's FontSpec:

http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/

If you haven't read _The Elements of Typographic Style_ by Robert Bringhurst, it should go to the top of the list.

I list a couple of books here:

http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/books-typography.html

Other good background materials, Simon Oliver's _Introduction to Typography_.

I also list some books which you may find of interest on this broadside:

http://mysite.verizon.net/william_franklin_adams/portfolio/typography/typefaceterminology.pdf

William 
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