Typography plays a big role in graphic design and can be one of the hardest things to get right. My aim here is to introduce some of the basics and the most
45rpm record label designs, visionary typography, handpainted business signs, cult of the goat in Bock beer labels, ephemera and the world of old paper, word drawings in 'they called her styrene,' shrines & altars & holy places...
Cardo is a large Unicode font specifically designed for the needs of classicists, Biblical scholars, medievalists, and linguists. Since it may be used to prepare materials for publication, it also contains features that are required for high-quality typography, such as ligatures, text figures (also known as old style numerals), true small capitals and a variety of punctuation and space characters. It may also be used to document and discuss the features of Unicode that are applicable to the these disciplines, as we work to help colleagues understand the value (and limitations) of Unicode.
There are several reasons why one should prefer LaTeX to a WYSIWYG word processor like Microsoft Word: portability, lightness, security are just a few of them (not to mention that LaTeX is free). There is still a further reason that definitely convinced m