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james felici

Design

The Art of Type: Fractional Improvements

Back in third grade, Mrs. Ditzel taught us fractions. So nearly 50 years later, I ask myself why Adobe programs have such a hard time ...
james felici
July 15, 2008
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Design

Getting the Drop on Initial Caps

InDesign makes simple drop caps easy but typographically refined ones are more challenging. No matter what kind of a drop cap you create, the following ...
james felici
May 14, 2008
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Design

Art of Type: Push Button Proofreading

Whenever you Place a text document in InDesign or Illustrator, you’re probably importing typographical problems with it. This is a guide to weeding out some ...
james felici
March 13, 2008
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Gear

InCopy CS3

Integrated text processing for InDesign
james felici
March 5, 2008
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Design

The Art of Type: Space Exploration

But if you specify that distance in fractions of an em, their relative spacing will remain constant at any size. This is why kerning and ...
james felici
July 23, 2007
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Design

The Art of Type: Baseline Basics

The best way to measure the relative positions of text blocks on the page is by reckoning from their baselines, those invisible lines upon which ...
james felici
June 19, 2007
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Design

Art of Type: Help for Widows and Orphans

...A widow is a short last line of a paragraph and an orphan is a short fragment of a paragraph that appears at the top ...
james felici
March 17, 2007
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Design

The Art of Type: Suffering the Reverses

A basic assumption that makes type work—and the key to which issues of spacing and proportion hinge—is that it’s black on a white background.
james felici
February 22, 2007
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