Indie Fonts 2: A Compendium of Digital Type from Independent Foundries

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Indie Fonts

Indie Fonts Brings Unseen Type to the Masses

Indie Fonts 2: A Compendium of Digital Type from Independent Foundries

Manufacturer: Rockport Publishers
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If you seem like your hunger for new fonts is insatiable, then Indie Fonts 2 is the book for you. It is the second installment in Rockport's Indie Fonts series and brings you even more fonts to choose from. Don't settle for ordinary fonts when you can capture your reader's attention with an original font that hasn't been become overused and boring.

Indie Fonts 2 includes more than 1600 diverse fonts from 19 of today's hottest digital type foundries and features the best work of these designers. This comprehensive collection helps designers do their jobs even better by providing some of the highest quality fonts available today.

The type styles range from the best of Matthew Carter's classic designs to the latest irreverence of ingoFonts. Designers searching for unique typefaces will find what they are looking for, whether historical revivals or futuristic techno faces.

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This book is great! 0 Stars for Amazon though... Consider Yourself Warned!.......2006-01-29

I bought this book from Amazon thinking that I'd have better luck than the Oct. 2005 shopper... Boy was I wrong! Not only is the book all broken in/cover torn & scratched... the CD IS MISSING!!! That's part of the reason I bought this book. I purchased this book "brand new" from Amazon (triple-checked my receipt to confirm).

The book itself is great, but please do yourself a favor and DO NOT buy this book from Amazon--you'll be thoroughly disappointed.

bad for business.......2005-10-18

this item was described as brand new in plastic wrap, which is why i purchased it as a gift for a friend. not only was this item CLEARLY used, it was falling apart. the book was shipped to me with a broken spine, the paper sover had marks all over it and there was NO plastic wrap protecting the item. i am very upset with the service i received, and will NOT be shopping with amazon again!

Resource for graphic artists and web designers--wonderful.......2005-10-02

This is an unusual volume; you get a book with 408 pages of various resources, organized by font foundry. You can sample the work of each foundry and get an idea of their product line.

Best of all, the front of the book has in index in alphabetical order showing each font. So you can locate a font you like and then look it up for additional information.

You can also find the AIGA's guide to the Use of Fonts, important for understanding copyright in using fonts in your work.

The bonus CD has 33 fully-licensed fonts. Not all of them are unique--you can find some of these gratis on the web, but the collection is handy for those who can't get enough fonts. I only found a few of these really worth having.

American Spirit
Charaille
Lovesick
Nightmare
Scrawm
Sunspots
Transponder
Fridayluck
Patching Compound
Snipple
Schnookems
Black Widow
Sparkly (Fontdiner.com, a fave of mine)
Loungy (also fontdiner.com)
Bowl-o-rama
Eric sans and sans italic
Sinsation
P22 typewrites
Cusp Three Opp
PRR Sinel
Faceplate sans A and C gauge
Atomic Suck
Stunner Leather Jackts
Screwtop regular and negative
TX Manifesto
Cyphor7
Strenuous 3D

My faves are of course from fontdiner.com--the best retro fonts out there, I think.

Indie Fonts.......2003-01-02

Wow! "Indie Fonts" is indeed a quality book both in the information it provides and the workmanship afforded in the making of the book itself. Few publishers take pride in making such a quality product as this...like the bookbinders of yesteryear. You can see the workmanship as soon as you lay eyes on it. You can feel the wokmanship the moment you pick it up. A work of Art! Highly recommended. Enjoy!

Indie Fonts Brings Unseen Type to the Masses.......2002-12-19

The book's hardback permanence and $$$ ($$$ from Chank, that scoundrel) list price make it more of a reference than a catalog. Bound in stunning red cloth, Indie Fonts' exterior brings to mind the solid albums of ATF and Linotype. With class and substance, this volume lends credence to each firm it represents.

Up front is a style index with a one-line showing for each font and page number referring to the corresponding full specimen.

Generally well-planned specimen pages organized in foundry sections make up the bulk of the content. Each foundry created its own section page with a company bio and ordering information. Each shop also designed its own specimens based on Grieshaber's templates, resulting in showings of slightly varying quality. On the whole, the type is given ample room for full character sets, although things get a bit tight for foundries with more fonts to show. Text faces are often shown in paragraph form with a tiny column measure. It would be nice to see how they perform in more extensive settings. The font name, designer and year of design are listed in the sidebar. Some foundries opted to include notes on the font's use or origin in this margin and those specimens are better for it.

Trailing the foundry sections is a glossary, a reading list, and a handy character reference chart. Also included is the AIGA's guide to the Use of Fonts which covers some font copyright and ethical use concepts misunderstood by most designers. A simple index of font names and designers rounds out the book.

Tucked into the inside back cover is a CD of 33 "Bonus Fonts" which are fully licensed for immediate use. Some are true commercial goodies and add value to the book, others are available for free elsewhere, and a few are pure poop.

Not Seen on TV

Any collection of independent typography is subject to a wide variety of style and quality. In no other book can one find the classic work of regal Matthew Carter directly followed by the irreverant fonts of Chank. Indie Fonts proudly hails both the king and the court jester. But the unexpected is what makes the volume so valuable. Much of this type has never been used by a magazine or multi-national corporation. These are fonts not seen on TV. These are mass-culture virgins. To a designer struggling to make an impact in a world over-saturated with the same old look, this stuff is gold.

Most of the typefaces in Indie Fonts were already unveiled by their respective foundries in those previously mentioned corners of the web, but there are a few that will be new, even to surfing typoholics. Fresh Fountain fonts made their debut in Indie Fonts before the redesigned web site went live. Peter Bilak's multi-descendered Fedra Serif (still in preview form at Typotheque) is displayed beautifully in one of the more thorough specimens of the book. Without a website or distributor, much of Matthew Carter's Carter & Cone library (Fenway, Big Figgins, ITC Galliard CC, Ionic #1, Sammy Roman, and Wilson Greek) is on display here for the first time, as far as I know. And It's a relief to see all of the Test Pilot Collective in one accessible place, their website still repelling hopeful visitors after years of being AWOL.

Worth a Spot on the Shelf

Indie Fonts isn't quite on par with the master of all specimen books, FontShop's FontBook. But it's more of a companion to the catalogs of the large distributors than it is a replacement. In the end, those who rely only on the big boys are overlooking a valuable set of typefaces - many of which are effectively set into motion by this very worthy tool.

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INDIE FONTS 2, A COMPENDIUM OF DIGITAL TYPE FROM INDEPENDENT FOUNDRIES.
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Very enjoyable.......2006-11-04

I am an avid cruciverbalist, and very much enjoyed this volume -- not so hard that I couldn't conquer a good number of the puzzles, but vague enough in some cases that I am going to have to go back to some of the puzzles with a fresh eye some time in the future in order to finish them. A few of them, however, have some truly far-fetched clues/answers in them -- a little too much poetic license granted to the designer, I think. All in all, however, they are addictive and fun!

Duplicated puzzles.......2006-07-05

Don't be ripped off. The first 20 puzzles in this volume are duplicated in the new book "Sunday Morning Crossword Puzzles: 75 giant sunday puzzles" published June 2006. Buy one or the other.

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Vermont's African Americans get their due, finally!.......2001-03-03

The Green Mountain State sent slightly more than 10 percent of its population to fight in the Civil War, but Vermont African Americans enlisted at a rate of over 21 percent (152 out of a population of 709 according to the 1860 census)! But no one has adequately documented these contributions, until now.

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Among other units, Vermont African Americans served in the 10th, 31st, 41st, 43rd, 45th U.S. Colored Infantry, and the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored). After brief regimental histories of each of these, Jim details the service of each man and often details of their pre and post-war lives. His Appendices include a complete roster, including regiment, company, rank and town, and known burial places for these Vermont veterans.

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Serious, but accessible.......2006-03-11

I got "domination" for a class, which does not tend to bias me in favor of liking a book. However, I have tentatively enjoyed reading it. It is a serious, scholarly book, but the topic is engaging and the case studies and historical examples cited are always interesting. I think that the author supports his complex thesis very well, and I would recommend this book to people who want to read something serious about race and culture.

Domination and the Arts of Resistance.......2002-01-23

This book is a clear indication of the problems with modern historians: the tendency toward presumption and the discovery of common sense as if it were a new planet. Scott claims to understand the REAL story beneath ordinary daily discourses, going so far as to state that young inner city black men play a game that involves trading insults in order to "practice" reacting to racism in non-violent ways. How ridiculous!
Scott also attempts to prove his thesis by stating that alcohol sometimes plays a role in hidden transcripts becoming public. I suppose he hasn't had much experience with alcohol or those who have partaken of alcohol, else he would realize this is painfully obvious and not a groundbreaking revelation.
I give the book 2 stars because of its readability and the obvious effort put into the research. However, I cannot recommend it, for it is a perfect example of historians who spend too much time in the office, and not enough time in the real world.

James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance.......2000-11-12

Spanning the entire globe and covering over 1000 years of human history, James C. Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance is an intellectual odyssey into the relatively new field of subaltern studies. It is also an intellectual oasis for historians and general readers of history who have become disillusioned with the traditional historiography of power relations and resistance among dominate groups and subordinate groups. Indeed, Scott's use of folklore, speeches, ballads, literary theory,linguistics, and public ceremonies, e.g., parades and political rallies, greatly adds to the works of other innovative historians of culture, domination, and resistance, e.g., Scott gives the works of Michel Focault, Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra, and Natalie Zemon Davis, to name a few, new perspectives for cultural analysis. Perhaps of greater importance is Scott's examination of what he describes as "public" and "private" transcripts,i.e., dialogue among and between the dominate and subordinate groups. Furthermore, Scott puts great emphasis on the "infrastructure" of power relationships among the respective inner "communities" of theweak and the strong. In short, what goes on behind the scenes, away from the public eye, reveals the true nature of what Scott labels as "masks of power", which are, in effect, merely public performances designed to placate both dominate and subordinate groups. This absorbing work will certainly be influential for future generations of historians, anthroplogists, political scientists, and sociologists.

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"When the great lord passes the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts." This book marks one of those moments for me when rethink just about everything...from elusidating certain truisms to hammering out theories and ideas that ring remarkably true, Scott's book is challenging, powerful, and engaging. Reading this book is like sitting in his office conversing...I find myself exclaiming and agreeing aloud. I really enjoy his comments on gender; a concept I have felt comfortable with for years, and suddenly I feel as though he has just clarified it for me. I have been doing double-takes as random comments about women in my primary sources (about fickleness of emotion) which I thought I could chalk up to typical misogyny begin to catagorize themselves in my mind as the effects of attempting to live within hidden and public transcripts. Very readable, interesting, engaging...in a word, fabulous.

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The best childrens story ever told on cassette tape.......1998-03-26

Ethel has such a wonderful voice and tells the story with such enthusiasm and makes it so believable that even adults can enjoy listening to the stories. This book and tape is truly a classic, which every family should have in their collection including grandma's as well. I hope the publisher's will reprint this wonderful story so I can replace the copy I had which was lost in a house fire last July. I was very excited to find the cassette still in good condition.

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