U&lc Issue: 25.4.2

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.

Dig We Must/Olav Martin Kvern: The Soapbox, Please Software that’s easy to learn isn’t always easy to use. What horror are these programs trying to protect you from?

The Road Taken/Paul Shaw The traditions of Swiss typography take on new life in a confused age. Paul Shaw reviews Helmud Schmid’s the road to Basel and Willi Kunz’s Typography: Micro- + Macroaesthetics.