Ilene Strizver

Our longtime typography expert explores how the core principles of design translate from the digital page to the hands-on craft of restoring vintage furniture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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