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James Felici
James Felici has worked in the publishing industry-in both editorial and production-for over 30 years. A veteran journalist and former managing editor of Publish magazine, he has set type by hand as well as on systems from IBM, Linotype, Compugraphic, CCI, and Magna. His books include The Complete Manual of Typography (Peachpit Press), The Desktop Style Guide (Bantam/ITC), How to Get Great Type Out of Your Computer (North Light), and contributions to The Macintosh Bible (Peachpit Press). He has written for numerous publications, including PC World ,Macworld, and The Seybold Report, and has been a featured speaker at Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and other events worldwide.
A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 2
Features: Written by James Felici on November 16, 2009
Everything you wanted to know about Unicode but didn’t know whom to ask. Bonus: A cheat sheet for instantly creating such characters as fractions; up and down arrows; and open and filled circles and squares.
A Question of Character: Finding What You Need in Your Fonts, Part 1
Features: Written by James Felici on October 26, 2009
As fonts get larger, finding the characters you need keeps getting more complicated. Here's a chart that gives keyboard shortcuts for the degree symbol, multiplication sign, the cents sign, and much more.
One Good Kern Deserves Another
How-Tos: Written by James Felici on October 12, 2009
Evening out the spaces between characters is a matter of finding the right rhythm, then going with the flow.
Antique Gothic Grotesque: Deciphering the Typeface Name Game
Features: Written by James Felici on October 5, 2009
The vocabulary of type is mysterious at best, and nowhere is this more true than in how typefaces are labeled. Yet knowing how typefaces are named and categorized has very practical benefits.
To Boldly Go . . . Or Is It Italically?
How-Tos: Written by James Felici on September 21, 2009
In any family, you can always spot the role of certain members. Typeface families are no different.
Punc Rocks: The Typographer's Guide to Punctuation
How-Tos: Written by James Felici on September 9, 2009
When it comes to understanding what we read, periods, commas, and their dotty allies are proof that it's the little things that count. Here's how to use them correctly.
To Double-Space or Not to Double-Space...
Features: Written by James Felici on August 24, 2009
A thought-provoking disquisition on the thorny issue of how much space should follow a sentence-ending period.
In White Space, No One Can Hear You Scream
Features: Written by James Felici on August 10, 2009
Think you're in total control of your type? Truth is, you're on a short lead, in the tight grip of your typeface's designer.
Illustrator Type Tricks: A Frolic on the Far Side
How-Tos: Written by James Felici on August 27, 2007
These techniques for "enhancing" your type will have your mild-mannered fonts cowering in fear as you take them to places they dared not ever go.
Managing Fonts on the Mac
Features: Written by James Felici on January 10, 2002
Fonts multiply like rabbits. The Mac OS gives you fonts. Applications give you fonts. And you'll find it hard to pass by those cheap CDs full of fonts. The next thing you know, you've got hundreds of them all over the place. It's no wonder that font management has become a big issue.