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.
Articles
See all articlesInType: Legibility vs. Readability
Follow these tips for selecting and designing with type to create text that attracts and keeps a reader’s attention.
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.
5 Great Script Fonts From Adobe Fonts
Need a great script font for use in your next InDesign project? Look no further!
Understanding and Applying Small Caps
Small caps are a handy feature for type design, but make sure you're using real ones!
Susan Friedman, Illustrative Quilt Artist/Designer
The artistic quilts of Susan Friedman offer important lessons in the use of color, texture, design, and composition.
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.
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
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.
Ten Essential Books on Typography
Ilene Strizver shares her list of must-have books to inspire and inform you.
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 […]