U&lic Issue: 25.3.2

ITC Founder's Caslon Should typeface revivals preserve the real original, warts and all? Justin Howes thinks so, and has given us a four-size family of William Caslon’s historic types. A look at Caslon the man and the types he made, by John D. Berry.

Dig We Must/Olav Martin Kvern: You Can't Touch This “Direct” typesetting: threat or menace? FingerType, and the defunct TouchType, challenge Olav Martin Kvern’s assumptions about how type should be manipulated.

The nature of the type world keeps changing. And any online publication is, by definition, about change. U&lc Online began life as an online companion to U&lc, ITC’s award-winning magazine; from here on in, it will begin a new life, in a new format, as ITC’s online voice. Expect the unexpected. U&lc Online is ITC’s international journal of graphic design and digital media. U&lc Online needs no subscription; it’s part of the ITC web site, itcfonts.com. To read U&lc Online, just bookmark this page and check it out every month.