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. [...]
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
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 [...]
TypeTalk: Hung Punctuation & Optical Margin Alignment
To hang or not to hang – punctuation, that is. The term hanging punctuation might not be familiar to some, as the related terminology in digital typesetting is optical [...]
Setting Readable Reversed Type
Setting type in reverse (white or light-colored type on a dark background), is a design technique frequently used to help to establish hierarchy, create emphasis, or just to [...]
Glyph Positioning and Baseline Shift
If you are a creative professional who is a stickler for typographic details, or a design student or novice wanting to get an edge over your competition, this article is for [...]
Helvetica vs. Neue Helvetica: The Same but Different
Helvetica is one of the most popular and well-known sans serif typefaces in the world ever since its inception in 1957. It’s been used for every typographic project [...]
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