The Inspired Type Designs of Sofia Mohr
Sofia Mohr Sofia Mohr has been very busy the last few years. This Brazilian architect, who was born in São Brazil and currently lives in Santiago, Chile, traversed mediums [...]
Ilene Strizver
Ilene Strizver, founder of The Type Studio, is a typographic consultant, designer, writer and educator specializing in all aspects of visual communication, from the aesthetic to the technical. Her book, Type Rules! The designer’s guide to professional typography, 4th edition, has received numerous accolades from the type and design community.
Articles by Ilene Strizver
Finessing the Details of Type: Registered, Trademark, & Copyright Symbols
Every designer and typesetter at one time or another needs to use one or more of these three symbols: registered, trademark, and copyright. What might seem like a tiny legal [...]
Children’s Books by Well-known Designers
Graphic design can be a serious business. But sometimes a creative professional will break from their usual kind of work and have some fun with children’s books. Below you [...]
Legibility and Readability: What’s the Difference?
There are some terms in typography that are frequently confused with others because they are related in meaning – but still different. Legibility and readability are two of [...]
The Fashion Fonts of Moshik Nadav
Moshik Nadav holding a ‘g’. If you don’t think an inanimate entity can be sexy, you might change your mind once you set eyes on the work of Moshik Nadav. [...]
History and Usage of the Ampersand
One of the most beautiful of symbols in our Latin-based written language is the ampersand. It can be sexy and curvy with sensuous thicks and thins, or a solid and strong [...]
Shag, A Retro Font Family with Roots
Josh “Shag” Agle The Shag family of fonts is a fun, nostalgic collection inspired by the work of LA-based illustrator Josh Agle, better known as “Shag” (a [...]
Saul Bass, Master of the Movie Title Sequence
Mention movie titles to any designer in the know, and undoubtedly the name Saul Bass will come up. Saul Bass (1920 – 1996) was an American graphic designer and movie title [...]
Confusing Type Terms, Part 2
Within the world of typography, there are a variety of terms that are either confused with each other, or just totally misunderstood. In Part 2 of this series (Part 1 is [...]
Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate
Marcel is more than just a beautiful script typeface. It is the product of a fantastic journey undertaken by designer and typography geek Carolyn Porter to learn the fate of [...]
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