All About Titling Fonts
When looking for just the right display typeface, have you considered a titling font? If not, you are missing out on an entire category of possibilities. Titling fonts are [...]
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. She conducts her widely acclaimed Gourmet Typography Workshops internationally. For more information on attending one or bringing it to your company, organization, or school, go to her site, call The Type Studio at 203-227-5929, or email Ilene at info@thetypestudio.com. Sign up for her free e‑newsletter, All Things Typographic, at www.thetypestudio.com.
Articles by Ilene Strizver
The Process Is the Inspiration, The New House Industries Book
The Process Is the Inspiration is not your average type foundry book. In fact, it goes way beyond the scope of any type book I have seen. This is because it is not really a [...]
Sign Painters: An (almost) Lost Art
Sign painting is an art and a craft that has attracted and fascinated both designers and laypersons alike for decades. It can be a combination hand-lettering, calligraphy, [...]
Presenting Anisette, the Typeface with Three Sets of Caps
Anisette, designed by Jean François Porchez of Typofonderie in France, is not a brand new typeface, but one that recently caught my attention from a “snail” mailing, [...]
Understanding and Applying Small Caps
Small caps are capital letterforms that usually approximate the height of the lowercase, and for some fonts, can be taller. They are a very useful feature that can be used in [...]
The Design, Illustration, Lettering and Typography of Daniel Pelavin
Daniel Pelavin is a jack of many trades, graphically-speaking. He grew up in Detroit Michigan and began his career as an apprentice, working his way up through the ranks in [...]
Finesse Your Type with Three Great InDesign Scripts
Dan Rodney describes himself as a designer, instructor, web developer, and all-around nice guy. This certified Adobe Instructor/Expert is passionate about technology and has [...]
Introducing the Ringside Family by Hoefler&Co.
Ringside is the latest typeface family from Hoefler&Co. Famous for creating long-lived typefaces that are marked by both high performance and high style, H&Co’s [...]
Communication Arts 7th Annual Typography Competition
Communication Arts magazine, a professional journal for those involved in visual communications, has announced the winners of its 7th annual Typography Competition. This [...]
The Definitive Guide to Quotes, Apostrophes, and Primes
Quotation marks, apostrophes, and primes (also known as inch and foot marks) are some of the most misunderstood and misused elements in typesetting. The confusion between [...]
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