The complete manual of typography
Subtitle: a guide to setting perfect type
By: James Felici.
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780321127303
Subjects: Type and type-founding -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Graphic design (Typography)
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc
Notes: "Foreword by Frank Romano"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Typographic basics: The state of the art and how we got here ; Units of typographic measurement ; About typefaces ; About fonts ; The basics of using typefaces ; Typesetting versus typewriting ; Setting type on a personal computer ; What makes good type good (and bad type bad); title: How to set type: Measure, point size, and leading ; Controlling hyphenation and justification ; Kerning and tracking ; Managing indentation and alignment ; Special characters and special situations ; Document structures and typographic conventions ; Tables ; Language-specific issues ; Tyepsetting with style sheets ; Output-resolution issues.