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Ilene Strizver, founder of The Type Studio, is a noted typographic educator, consultant, designer and writer. She specializes in all aspect of visual communication, from the aesthetic to the technical. Ilene has written and lectured extensively on type and typographic design to both students and professionals in the field.

Ilene formerly was the Director of Typeface Development for International Typeface Corporation (ITC), where she developed more than 300 text and display typefaces with such respected and world-renowned type designers as Sumner Stone, Erik Spiekermann, Jill Bell, Jim Parkinson, Tim Donaldson, and the late Phill Grimshaw. She cut her typographic teeth by working on Upper and Lowercase (U&lc) and other type projects with such legendary icons as Ed Benguiat, Aaron Burns, and Herb Lubalin.

Her clients included International Typeface Corporation, Monotype Imaging, Linotype, Adobe, Galápagos Design Group, BJ's Wholesale, Haband, Nassau Guardian, Johnson & Johnson and bethere.com.

Ilene has written for HOW, Dynamic Graphics, and STEP Inside magazines. She also authors the popular column "fy(t)I For Your Typographic Information," which can be found on www.fonts.com and www.itcfonts.com. Her current book, Type Rules! The designer's guide to professional typography, 2nd edition, has received numerous accolades from the type and design community. She conducts her widely acclaimed Gourmet Typography workshops internationally.

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TypeTalk: Distorting Type

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on November 11, 2009

Are you tempted to stretch or squeeze letters, perhaps to make a headline or subhead fit better? Don't do it!

TypeTalk: Find Figure Styles in OpenType Fonts

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on October 29, 2009

To designers' delight, many typefaces include several kinds of numbers: oldstyle, lining, tabular, and proportional. But how do you discover which fonts have which styles?

TypeTalk: Times Roman vs Times New Roman

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on October 14, 2009

What's old, what's new, and what's what when you're talking about Times?

TypeTalk: Best Headline Breaks

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on October 1, 2009

When headline and subheads are more than one line long, grab the reins and make those breaks manually. Here's what to look for.

TypeTalk: Point Size and Letter Spacing

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on September 17, 2009

When you make type bigger or smaller, don't forget to adjust the letter spacing, too. The result will be more evenly colored text.

TypeTalk: InterroBANG

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on September 2, 2009

Both a question mark and an exclamation mark, the interrobang is hard-working punctuation.

TypeTalk: Does Foundry Size Matter?

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on August 27, 2009

There are so many places to buy type. Are large distributors better than small type studios?

TypeTalk: The Quick Brown Fox

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on August 19, 2009

Where did "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" come from, and what do these animals have to do with type?

TypeTalk: Change Word's Line Spacing, Part II

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on August 7, 2009

As long as you're willing to dive into the guts of Microsoft Word, it is possible to change the default line spacing for all new documents.

TypeTalk: Change Line Spacing in Word

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on July 29, 2009

Microsoft Word makes it easy for you to change line spacing from 1 to 1.5 and 2. But when you want more options, you have to dig a little deeper.

TypeTalk: A Blizzard of White-Space Characters

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on July 15, 2009

Flush space, figure space, hair space -- what do they all mean?!

TypeTalk: Keep Words Together

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on July 8, 2009

Nonbreaking spaces (also known as word joiners) prevent titles, headlines, and names from splitting at the end of a line. Here's how to insert nonbreaking spaces in the two most popular page-layout apps.

TypeTalk: Creative Indents

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on July 2, 2009

Some layouts call for traditional ways to separate paragraphs. Other times, you can add a little visual interest with something more unusual. Here's how.

TypeTalk: Collect OpenType Fonts in Smart Sets

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on June 25, 2009

Font managers' Smart Sets make it easy for you to find and activate only OpenType fonts. Smart Sets also let you search for many other attributes to organize your fonts, such as family, foundry, library, and keywords.

TypeTalk: Change Word's Default Font

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on June 17, 2009

It's not hard to change Microsoft Word's default font when you know where to look.

TypeTalk: Top Ten Type Resources Online

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on June 10, 2009

We type lovers are voracious readers about our favorite subject. Check out this list to see if your preferred online resource is represented, and to possibly find a new favorite.

TypeTalk: The Importance of Style (Sheets)

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on June 3, 2009

There's no better way to maintain consistency and make fast changes to text formatting than to use style sheets.

TypeTalk: Are Free Fonts Worth the Price?

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on May 27, 2009

Some free typefaces are pirated from legitimate fonts. Others are not stolen but are poorly designed. Here's how to find the ones that both look good and are legit.

TypeTalk: Letterspacing

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on May 20, 2009

Is it a type crime to add lots of space between characters? Or is letterspacing OK?

TypeTalk: To Everything, Kern, Kern Kern...

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on May 13, 2009

Over the centuries, the word "kern" has evolved from a noun to a verb. See photos of metal type and get info on kerning in today's digital landscape.