Daily Dose of DTP: 12. Que, Serif, Serif

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Daily Dose of DTP 12. Que, Serif, Serif From Jacci Howard Bear, your Guide to Desktop Publishing I mentioned in a previous lesson that composing type is a major aspect of page layout and desktop publishing. But to compose type, you have to have some. And most computers users have at least a few dozen fonts sitting around on their computer. Before we can put those fonts to good use we need to make sure we understand some basic classification facts about our ABCs. Class Notes: This is not simply a word-a-day course. The lessons follow a specific order in roughly the following groupings: General concepts > Things you need > Font specifics > Image specifics > Prepress & Printing > Rules & Tutorials (bold indicates the stage in which this lesson falls) Today's Definitions Serif Later on we'll get into the serif vs. sans serif debate. For now, make sure you actually know and understand what serifs are. Sans Serif There are some really grotesque fonts in this category. Script Penmanship for the computer? Today's Trivia Typing Pictures Dingbats AKA Symbol fonts AKA Pi fonts AKA Picture fonts AKA Clip Art fonts AKA Printer's Ornaments (how many aliases can a font have?) are typographic ornaments or graphics in digital font form. When you press A on your keyboard you might get a star or a happy face or a laughing dog or some other clever icon. Dingbats can be decorative or functional. Dingbats can be used as bullets in a list, as an end sign at the end of a story, as separators, and as accents. Sometimes type designers will create a companion dingbat font to go with their normal ABC fonts. It may contain bullets, symbols, swashes, or other type embellishments in the same style as the character fonts. This email is written by: Jacci Howard Bear Desktop Publishing Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Daily Dose of DTP' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement