Tips & Techniques for Outstanding
Typography, Text, Type and Fonts

• 15 Tips to Choose a Good Text Type  discusses letterform, axis, contrast, weight, caps, texture, and more.
  
  
• Add Texture to Type  from Laurie McCanna
  
  
• Aligning Text  Learn how to align your text exactly the way you want it in the Quicktime video.
  
  
• Create a Hollywood style Text Effect  from Laurie McCanna
  
  
• Create Glowing Text  from Laurie McCanna
  
  
• Excel Text Tips  Covers text tips when working in Microsoft Excel. Topics include: Selecting cells that only contain Text, finding & replacing in a single sheet or in all sheets, applying formatting only to cells containing text, extracting characters from text using text formulas, using the validation input message as a cell comment, convert text to lower case, counting how many times specific character appears in cell, how to extract a file name from a path .. and more.
  
  
• Feathered Type  from Laurie McCanna
  
  
• Groovy Two Toned Text Effects in Photoshop  Laurie McCanna shows how to create 60's style effects.
  
  
• HTML text tips  Covers some basic topics such as: Setting font sizes, creating a custom color scheme, designating color-specific text, tweaking the typeface, grabbing control with graphics, using codes for more characters, and more.
  
  
• Learn Typography and Page Layout  is an in-depth look at such topics as: Typesetting, Justification, Hyphenation options, Spaceband options, Letter spacing, Type arrangement, and more.
  
  
• mardiweb.com  Has a page of text tips for use with Paint Shop Pro.
  
  
• Text tips for Adobe InDesign  Are a few text tips for working with text in Adobe InDesign.
  
  
• Thinking with Type  is the on-line companion to the book Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students. Here you'll learn more about typography, and the terms used .. such as tracking, kerning, leading, x-height and more.
  
  
• Tips for Type  Topics include: Bullets, hanging indents, bulleted and numbered list, reversed text, using styles .. and more from Adobe.
  
  
• Top 10 things that you can do to manage your fonts better  is from the Extensis blog.
  
  
• Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 1  explains the fundamental concepts you need to understand to work with type in Photoshop.
  
  
• Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 2: Type Layers and Tools  explains how you can work with Photoshop's type layers and tools to add text to your artwork.
  
  
• Understanding Type and Text in Photoshop, Part 3: Type-Related Palettes  Pete Bauer provides an in depth look at the many type related options Photoshop offers through the Character and Paragraph palettes.
  
  
• Using Typography to create Texture  convert type to a shape in Adobe Illustrator.
  
  
• Web Typography: Line Spacing  takes a look at the importance to getting the line spacing correct on your web pages.
  
  
• Writing Electronic Text: Tips and Guidelines for Writers  This collection, emphasizing content, rather than coding .. offers advice on writing electronic documents.