Typesetting Resources and Links
Typesetting Resources
RGB vs. CMYK - Information for Typesetters & Designers
Explains the difference between the two and how to avoid surprises on press or with electronic media
Can You Typeset a Book with Microsoft Word?
The main issues with using Microsoft Word for typesetting, with links to tips and more information
Pantone Color System
A standard benchmark for specifying spot, process and other color systems
Adobe web site
InDesign, Photoshop & Acrobat updates and support
QuarkXpress web site
Updates, support and training
Books about Typography or Information Design
(These are books I actually own, use, and can recommend...)
The Elements of Typographic Style
Robert Bringhurst
The classic book on typography. Author Robert Bringhurst writes about designing with the correct typeface; striving for rhythm, proportion, and harmony; choosing and combining type; designing pages; using section heads, subheads, footnotes, and tables; applying kerning and other type adjustments to improve legibility; and adding special characters, including punctuation and diacritical marks.
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web takes much of the design information from the Elements of Typographic Style and translates it into CSS standards.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte
The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Detection of graphical deception: design variation vs. data variation. Sources of deception. Aesthetics and data graphical displays.
This is the second edition of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. This new edition provides excellent color reproductions of the many graphics of William Playfair, adds color to other images, and includes all the changes and corrections accumulated during 17 printings of the first edition.
Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte
The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information.
The book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. Winner of 17 awards for design and content.
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward R. Tufte
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations, and computer screens.
