Ilene Strizver

Ilene Strizver

About

Ilene Strizver is a noted typographic educator, author, designer and founder of The Type Studio in Westport, Connecticut. Her book, Type Rules! The designer’s guide to professional typography, is now in its 4th edition.

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InType: Legibility vs. Readability

Follow these tips for selecting and designing with type to create text that attracts and keeps a reader’s attention.

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InType: Know Your Small Caps

Add sophistication and polish to your type by understanding the different kinds of small caps, as well as how and when to use them.

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5 Great Script Fonts From Adobe Fonts

Need a great script font for use in your next InDesign project? Look no further!

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Understanding and Applying Small Caps

Small caps are a handy feature for type design, but make sure you’re using real ones!

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Susan Friedman, Illustrative Quilt Artist/Designer

The artistic quilts of Susan Friedman offer important lessons in the use of color, texture, design, and composition.

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InType: Tiny Type

Ilene Strizver enlarges on the importance of using the clearest text for the small-screen job so your readers won’t have to squint.

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TypeTalk: 10 Ways to Increase Readability and Create Inviting Text

Use these techniques to make text-heavy material more attractive and easily digestible for readers

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The Ultimate Guide to Kerning

Even the smallest of spaces can have the biggest impact on the appearance of type. Here’s how to always get it right.

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Ten Essential Books on Typography

Ilene Strizver shares her list of must-have books to inspire and inform you.

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10 Suggestions for Success with Type – and Life!

The time has come to say adieu to my monthly TypeTalk column. That doesn’t mean this is the absolute end, but I will transition from being a regular columnist (which I have been for over 15 years) to a guest contributor whenever I am excited about a topic that I can’t help but not write […]

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