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Other sources on the www:
Demystifying
Curves - one of many inspiring
tutorials
in PDF from Canvas-makers Deneba
a friendly tutorial on drawing
in AppleWorks, which you can also
apply to other vector programmes
a delightful series of articles
by Dmitry Kirsanov on the basics of
design as art and science, including
fonts, shape, the use of artwork, photography,
and animation: you need good concentration
skills to ignore all the advertising
which surrounds the real content - curvilinear
shapes - the
world of fonts
Alex Dumestre, Pierre
Bézier's Wonderful Curves:
some background ... what is it? ...
starting to demystify
a Java applet which demonstrates
how a Bézier curve is drawn
and
another bezier curve demo in Java
by Mark Hoefer
an introduction to using
bézier curves in PaintShop Pro
Darrel Plant,
What's a Bézier Curve? -
with an animated demonstration in Shockwave
Jim Felici - Craggy,
jaggy screen type |
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Adobe suggests these books:
Donald M. Anderson, The Art of Written
Forms; The Theory and Practice of Calligraphy,
New York, 1969 Joseph
Blumenthal, Art of the Printed Book
1455-1955, Boston Walter
Tracy, Letters of Credit: A View
of Type Design, Boston, 1986 Daniel
Berkeley Updike, Printing Types,
Their History, Forms, and Use, New
York, 1980 |
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and Renault's suggestions are here |