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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: Setting Phone Numbers

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on January 28, 2010

Show off your typographic know-how by setting phone numbers perfectly. Small details can make a difference!

TypeTalk: Type on a Curve

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on January 14, 2010

Setting type on a curving path can alter the balance and relationships between characters. Here's how to make sure your text still looks good.

TypeTalk: Is GIF or JPG Better for Displaying Web Type?

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on December 30, 2009

The JPG and GIF image file formats have their particular strengths, and both are common on the Web. So how do you decide which to use when your images contain type?

TypeTalk: Hidden Secrets of InDesign’s Find/Change

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on December 10, 2009

There's no need to manually run multiple Find/Change searches to replace things like double word spaces and dumb quotes. Instead, let InDesign do it for you automatically!

TypeTalk: Step Away from the Computer

Blog: Written by Ilene Strizver on November 24, 2009

Use nontraditional means to get type no one else has. From lipstick on a mirror to letter-shaped junk in a scrapyard, let the examples in this article be your inspiration to explore the unconventional.

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.