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A Monthly Magazine for the Type & Graphics ProfessionalDecember 1997 
 
The FontSite
 
Feature Articles

The FontSite Font CD

Scanning 3D Objects

TRUETYPE & POSTSCRIPT TYPE FONTS:
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? PART II

FontSite associate Thomas Phinney examines the font formats driving the print and publishing industry–PostScript Type 1 and TrueType. Mr. Phinney also discusses new technologies that will affect the type industry in the coming months.

THE STYLE GUIDE

The Style Guide is intended for writers and documentation specialists. (In the words of Ralph Wiggum, “Me fail english? That’s unpossible!”). 

THE PRODUCTION ARTIST SURVIVAL GUIDE

The Survival Guide is a regular series written for computer graphic artists. This section demonstrates techniques used by production artists on a daily basis, and includes step-by-step instructions on how to make your job easier.

RULES OF TYPOGRAPHY PART IV

Perhaps “guidelines” would be a better word, but there are some things in typography that you really oughta do, as well as some other things you really ought notta do. The goal of these rules (we’ll present a few in each issue) is to create good-looking documents that bespeak the professionalism and attention to detail that went into creating them.

 
FontSite Bookstore The FontSite Bookstore offers a huge selection of books on typography and design, hand-picked and annotated by FontSite booknerds. Most of the books are available at discounts of 20% off the cover price, many at discounts as high as 30%.
 
Font & File Downloads Fonts for sale, fonts for free. Come visit our library of professional-quality typefaces in PostScript and TrueType formats for Mac OS and Windows. And some other cool stuff too.
 
Annotated Linkography Our goal is to eventually build the world’s most complete list of links to things typographic, annotated of course. A work in progress, we enthusiastically welcome all input.
 
FontSite Archives Looking for feature articles that have previously appeared on the FontSite? We’ve conveniently listed them here for you.
 
About the FontSite Information about the FontSite including a discussion of the tools and fonts we used to build it.
 
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