Directory -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Computer, like you and me -- Competition for the designer -- Putting type through the mincer -- Big shots -- Splines -- Big brother -- Programmers -- Machine control -- The art of math -- In brief -- Open questions to GGL -- Statistics -- Kerning -- Trapping (shrinking and spreading) -- Kanji Metafont -- Sukeringu -- Machine formats -- Management -- 3. Typeface Market -- Typefaces are digital -- Standards and work division -- Typeface standards -- Areas for application of typefaces -- Typeface prices -- Typeface market -- Summary -- 4. Font Production in past and present -- 5. Third Abstraction -- Programmer's estimations -- 6. Font Technology -- Hand-digitizing -- Originals -- Designing on the screen? -- Quality -- Database -- 7. Intelligent Font Scaling -- Commentary -- List of instructions -- Rating the various scaling techniques -- Kind of contour description -- Conversion speed -- Memory requirements for a font -- Supported font layout -- Supported font metrics -- General output quality -- Effects of scaling techniques on font production -- Number of available fonts -- Future improvements for scalers: Universal RIPs -- Future screen fonts -- Glossary of instructions -- Employee and employer -- 8. Effects of Rasterization -- Resolution capability of the human eye -- Representation of a typeface -- DTP of the future -- 9. Letter Spacing -- Inter-letter spaces -- Legibility and discriminability -- Traditional spacing -- First step-basic spacing -- Optical center -- Italic typefaces and serifs -- Test texts and alphabet length -- Block composition -- Units -- Kerning - exceptions are becoming the rule -- Kerning tables -- Aesthetic tables -- Long kerning -- Short kerning -- 10. Display, Text and Poster -- Text -- Display -- Notices and advertisements -- Poster -- Graphics -- Resolving power of the human eye -- Graphic arts -- The fiddler -- 11. Type Quality -- What is it that accounts for the quality of a type? -- What is quality? -- Craftsmanship -- A range of design sizes -- Optical scaling -- In conclusion -- 12. Legibility -- What do we mean by legibility? -- Reading as a confirmation of expactations -- Some early approaches to the study of legibility -- Early definitions of legibility and discriminability -- The most important methods of studying legibility and discriminability -- The separation of «legibility» and «discriminability» -- Speed-of-reading as a criterion of legibility -- Requirements for a legibility measure -- The standardization of a speed-of-reading test -- Research findings obtained by means of this test -- Effect of variation of interword spaces -- The German version of the speed-of-reading test -- A practical application: Bodoni-Futura -- Effects of stroke thickness -- Effects of slant: upright versus italics -- Effects of typeface family: Roman versus sans serif -- 13. Biblica -- Problem -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- 14. GoldenType -- 15. Kanji -- One image - one word -- The oldest font tradition in the world -- The virtues of Kanji -- Western graphic symbols -- Ten thousands of characters -- The elements of Kanji -- Classifying Kanji -- Static text composition -- Kanji styles -- The long march of technology -- Tedious font manufacture -- Marketing -- 16. Classifying Typefaces according to DIN -- I. Venetian Antiqua -- II. French Antiqua -- III. Transitional -- IV. Modern Antiqua -- V. Slabserif -- VI. Sanserifs (Gothics) -- VII. Display Antiquas -- VII. Scripts -- IX. Graphics -- X. Blackletter -- Summary -- Order of magnitude -- 17. Copyright -- Historical background -- Character Act in Germany -- New and characteristic -- New and characteristic after the Vienna Agreement -- Civil actions as a result of illegal imitation -- Criminal prosecution as a result of illegal imitation -- Additional penalties that can result from illegal imitation -- Copyright protection in Germany -- Protection of the typeface name -- Protection of the trademark -- Designs Act -- Vienna Agreement of June 12, 1973 for placing typeface characters in international escrow -- Placement in international escrow according to the 1960 Designs Agreement at The Hague -- Activities outside Europe -- Licensing -- Summary -- A Typeface Design Grouping according to AFII -- B Congeniality of Print Types -- Method -- Preliminary experiments -- Main test -- Discussion and outlook -- C Glyph Identifier Register -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Synopsis of all registered Glyphs -- D Literature -- E Index.