U&lc Issue: 30.1.2

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.

Featured Designer: Tomi Haaparanta Sometimes a schoolboy’s crush can turn into a life-long love affair. For proof, consider Finnish designer Tomi Haaparanta. He fell in love with type in a class taught by calligrapher and designer Phil Baines, and went on to create his own foundry. Now, his lively typeface designs are used around the world.

Footnotes & End Notes Footnote: those little words at the bottom of the page, often (but not exclusively) seen in scholarly writing, that every designer should learn to set with legibility and economy. Following these basic guidelines will keep footnotes and endnotes clear in purpose and inviting to the reader.

Type Trading Card: ITC Benguiat/Friz Quadrata Two new Type Trading Cards: Friz Quadrata and ITC Benguiat; an award winner and a typeface that overcame an initial rejection. Click on the above link for two new additions to your trading card collection.

Opentype OpenType is the latest innovation in font technology, and it has much to offer: cross-platform compatibility, the potential for vastly expanded character sets, plus a built-in “brain” that keeps track of all those extra characters for you. Here’s what you need to know before diving in.

Blackletter Blackletter is not just for monks anymore. This fascinating and beautiful historic typestyle remains a vital part of our typographic heritage, with a surprising array of contemporary uses.

Featured Designer: Sumner Stone What are the odds that a math major would end up being one of the most successful contemporary designers of type? Sumner Stone could probably calculate them for you. With a graduate degree in mathematics and a long, successful career in type, Sumner Stone is walking proof that the equation of talent plus hard work is bound to add up to something wonderful.

Kerning Features in QuarkXPress and InDesign Even with today’s digital typesetting technology, some things still have to be done by hand — or do they? Here’s a look at the powerful kerning features built into two popular design applications. Use these features wisely and you’ll save time while achieving better typography, too.

Type Trading Card: Avant Garde Gothic/Newtext ITC Avant Garde Gothic started life in the late 1960s as a magazine masthead. Newtext has become ITC’s Copperplate Gothic.

Email Etiquette Proper email etiquette means a lot more than saying please and thank you. Follow these tips on everything from fonts to attachments, and you’ll be sure your message arrives intact and readable.

Art Deco Typestyles A Lalique vase, a Chanel gown, the Chrysler Building — and type? Absolutely! The Jazz Age cool of the Art Deco movement left its mark not just on architecture, advertising and fashion, but on type design as well.

Type Trading Card: Élan/American Typewriter ITC Élan is a design that is not only a mainstay of graphic design it also started a lifetime friendship between two masters of modern typography. Designed when IBM was as well known for typewriters as computers, ITC American Typewriter is still has a fresh and inviting communications tool.