U&lc Issue: 40.1.1

Typography For Children Setting type for children isn’t necessarily kid’s play. Making text inviting and accessible for new readers takes a little knowledge and a lot of common sense.

Type Trading Card: ITC Bookman/ITC Tabula ITC Bookman and Tabula, a modern revival of a 19th century serif typestyle and a highly legible sans, are the newest trading cards available from ITCFonts.com. Click here to learn more and add their trading cards to your collection.

Type Trading Card: Officina Sans/Stone Serif ITC Officina Sans and ITC Stone Serif are two widely-used type families from two prominent type designers. Click here to learn more and add their trading cards to your collection.

Type Trading Card: Novarese/Highlander ITC Novarese and ITC Highlander; one family with an odd italic the other’s name influenced by rock music – both great additions to your type trading card collection.

Type Trading Card: Serif Gothic/Galliard ITC Serif Gothic was one of the first typeface families released by ITC. It was first made available as a two-weight display family in 1972 and still endures. Endurance also appears in spades in the tale of ITC Galliard, which had its origins in a sixteenth-century design by Robert Granjon.

Type Trading Card: Cheltenham/Tactile ITC Cheltenham and ITC Tactile, one has been called “homely” the other “quirky,” both are distinctive and remarkably versatile. Click here to learn more and add their trading cards to your collection.

Type Trading Card: Bauhaus/Avant Garde Gothic ITC Bauhaus and ITC Avant Garde Gothic are both watershed typeface designs – and are the newest trading cards available from ITCFonts.com.

Type Specimens Pants you can try on, a car you can test-drive — but how do you really know what a typeface looks like before you buy it? Type specimens are the answer. Follow these tips on how to build your own specimen collection, and soon you’ll be able to find the perfect typeface, every time.

Style-Linked Fonts Your computer should never be trusted to create a bold or italic version of a font – and with style-linking, it won’t even be tempted. Style-linked fonts can make your life easier and your type look better. Here’s a simple explanation of how they work, and an even simpler way to find out if you already have these style-savvy items in your type library.

Headlines A powerfully designed headline can grab your readers’ attention and draw them in. Don’t squander these golden opportunities to communicate; instead, master the art of creating eye-catching, high-contrast headlines that refuse to be ignored.

Thinking Small: Using Display Fonts at Text Sizes Like Alice in Wonderland, type can be made to grow big or small depending on our whim. In Part II of a two-part article on font sizing, Ilene Strizver discusses when – and when not – to set display fonts at small sizes.

Decorated Fonts When your everyday sans and serifs won’t do, consider a decorated font. These highly specific, illustrative typefaces can help create exactly the mood you want your project to convey.

Type Hierarchy When you have a lot of information to communicate, don’t be afraid to play favorites. Learn how to use type to create a hierarchy of information – your readers will thank you for letting them know what’s most important.

Captions, Part 1 Even when a picture is worth a thousand words, most of the time it’s likely to have a caption anyway. Not quite body text, not quite display text, captions require careful handling to guarantee the best results.

Pull Quotes A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes words are all you’ve got. Learn how to use pull-quotes to add visual interest to text-heavy pages – and increase your readership, too.

Seasonal Fonts Holiday cards, party invitations, one-of-a-kind gifts, thank-you notes – the holiday season provides countless opportunities to do personalized graphic projects. Seasonally-themed image fonts will help put you and your designs in a festive mood

End Marks Like a rim shot after the punch line of a joke, the end mark at the close of an article, chapter, or story lets you know it’s all over. Learn what they are, where to find them, and where to put them.

Discretionary Hyphens A line may be the shortest distance between two points, but those little horizontal lines we call hyphens can create long hours of tweaking and proofreading. Banish the misplaced hyphen for good by mastering the discretionary hyphen, a smart little dash that knows when it’s needed – and when it’s not.

Arabesques You don’t have to be able to touch your toe to the back of your head to enjoy typographic arabesques. These versatile graphic ornaments can be used singly or combined in elaborate patterns to add a striking visual element to any design.

Thinking Big: Using Text Fonts at Display Sizes With today’s digital font technology, it’s easy to make small letters big and big letters small – but should you? In Part I of a two-part discussion of font sizing, learn when and when not to use text faces at display sizes, along with some tips for getting the most – and best – out of your fonts.

Captions, Part 2 The key to setting effective, legible captions is using the right tool for the right job: namely, caption fonts. These specially-designed fonts have been optimized for use at small sizes.

Wordplay: The Philosophy, Art, and Science of Ambigrams “Wordplay” by John Langdon is a letter-lover’s delight. The illustrator for Dan Brown’s bestseller Angels & Demons provides images and essays that intrigue and inspire.

Featured Designer: Teri Kahan Teri Kahan has turned her passion for drawing, for the ocean and for all things Hawaiian into a vibrant, award-winning career as a graphic artist, type designer, teacher and fine artist. From her precocious beginnings in Southern California to her recent font releases, Kahan’s love of letters has remained as constant as the sea.

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.

U&lc: influencing design and typography A beautiful new book showcases the very best pages of U&lc. What? You never read U&lc? Then pull up a chair, son, and let one of us old-timers tell you the story of one of the great design publications of the 20th century. It all started way back around 1970....