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I like designing (and have read a few typography books) but typography seemed like it was expensive to get into. What software do you use? What entry-level soft
by devmunchies 9y ago
I like designing (and have read a few typography books) but typography seemed like it was expensive to get into. What software do you use? What entry-level software is there?
For web and graphic design there was almost no monetary cost to learning.
- Freak_NL 9y agoFor textual documents like academic work and literature LaTeX and its many packages are great for high quality typography. It has a steep learning curve though, but the results look professional and sharp if you follow the best practices. For things like beautiful tables and well-balanced paragraphs (i.e., the distribution and hyphenation of words) LaTeX is hard to beat. So if you are into typesetting books, that is a great option. Nowadays there are plenty of good free fonts available too (although you are naturally limited). Free software fonts like Gentium are a pleasure on the eye in print. I'm not too familiar with the more DTP side of software available as free software though. Of course web browsers have come a long way too. Decent typography is already possible in the modern web browser, and more goodies become available all the time.
- LambdaComplex 9y agoI've recently (within the past week or so) begun learning LaTeX for the purpose of typesetting my resume. It's actually been easier than I expected, and the result already looks much better than the Google-Docs-Exported-to-PDF that I had before.