Teaching Digital Typography
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Digital typography is a very specialized field that offers two widely different yet complementary aspects:art and computer science.This paper presentsProject Didot, which is all about teaching digital typography. While taking into account recent experience, the authors explore some subjects that should be included in a digital typography course and describe the various trades it would be aimed at. This paper concentrates on the computer science aspect and gives a basic bibliography.
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Digital typography is a very specialized field that offers two widely different yet complementary aspects:art and computer science.This paper presentsProject Didot, which is all about teaching digital typography. While taking into account recent experience, the authors explore some subjects that should be included in a digital typography course and describe the various trades it would be aimed ...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Electronic Publishing
دوره 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1992