"Organized both alphabetically and by style, the newly revised and updated Adobe Type Library Reference Book, Second Edition provides: specimen pages displaying every font in Adobe's enormous collection, including 60 new typefaces; typefaces from internationally renowned foundries and award-winning type designers; design inspiration and expert advice on type selection; an expanded section on the OpenType format to help you make the most of its expanded character set and layout capabilities; explanations and illustrations of the distinguishing characteristics of different type styles - from a graceful Garalde Oldstyle to Adobe's new Opticals - as well as ornaments and symbols; a chart showing the Adobe Western 2 character set, including the right keyboard combinations to access different characters; and listings for 31 Japanese fonts from Adobe."--BOOK JACKET.