Ages ago, I worked up a pair of .pdfs which may be of interest to people who aren't formally trained in graphic design / typography.
They're in my on-line portfolio: http://mysite.verizon.net/william_fr...portfolio.html
Direct links:
http://mysite.verizon.net/william_fr...erminology.pdf --- A tabloid-sized broadside (or poster) which shows and defines various typographic terms and provides references for many of them. Layout was done in Altsys Virtuoso in NeXTstep on a NeXT Cube using the first Adobe Original font, Adobe Garamond.
http://mysite.verizon.net/william_fr...type-sheet.pdf --- A small booklet set in TeX (and featured in The TeX Showcase) as a companion piece to the above. A single-sheet version for printing, folding and ``binding'' --- to ``bind'' the booklet, after printing fold in half (top-to-bottom), unfold, fold in half lengthwise, then fold in half and open, and fold each resulting panel in half, unfold and restore to the original fold, then cut along the inner half of the lengthwise fold, open and fold lengthwise. Then all of the pages should be folded within the front and back covers and voila! a single signature booklet.
They used to be linked from the Wikipedia article on Typography, before someone decided that there could be nothing good on AOL's homepages to link to and they were removed.
Anyone have any other good references?
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