CAB@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU (Chuck Bigelow) (06/04/88)
Digital Typography: an introduction to Type and Composition for Computer System Design, by Richard Rubinstein (a Consulting Engineer at DEC). Addison Wesley, 1988. isbn 0-201-17633-5. (don't know the price) A good compendium of information about the main aspects of digital typography, from type design to text composition. In addition to offering a review of the literature and a survey of the kinds of software tools that are out there in the typo world, Dick, from experience as a human factors engineer, devises some clever quantitative measures for various aspects of typographic images, which will be of interest to the scientifically minded, and his personal interest in letterpress printing makes him sensitive to typographic issues that would escape a less enthusiastic investigator. Chuck B. says check it out.