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by Ilene Strizver, founder of The Type Studio Some numbers add up, and others don’t – no, it’s not your tax return. It’s the difference b...

by Ilene Strizver, founder of The Type Studio If you’re a graphic designer and work on a Macintosh system, chances are you typically use...

From FontShop founder Erik Spiekermann Use bullets or centered points instead of hyphens (-) when you list items. Bullets are part of the s...

About a month ago, I posted my entry for Illustration Friday. My thumb has just about recovered from the abuse of all the carving it took. ...

From FontShop founder Erik Spiekermann Avoid flush settings! Most applications create justified text by hideously stretching and squishing ...

From FontShop founder Erik Spiekermann A ligature is defined as the visual or formal combination of two or three letters into a single char...

Yesterday, I posted about CHAOS so it only seems fitting that today should be about CONTROL. Wired's Clive Thompson has a very informat...

From FontShop founder Erik Spiekermann Good text typefaces have “old style”, “text”, or “lowercase” figures – 1234567890 – instead of “lini...

I guess I have been on somewhat of a superhero kick recently and last week's IF prompt Legenday fits the bill so I did a quick sketch...

From FontShop founder Erik Spiekermann A dead giveaway for unprofessional “desktop typography” are wrong quotes and apostrophes. Quotes can...

From FontShop founder Erik Spiekermann There are three different ways to connect or separate words: the hyphen -, the en dash –, a little w...

Intricate plots… Intricate plans… Physician's friend… Harmful to man? I have to admit… this is an old painting. I used to sit for hours ...

Daylight Savings Time - STARTS 3/8/09 Before you go to bed tonight, set clocks ahead 1 hour. As if we don't get too little sleep already...

Inspiration from across the sea! Creativity knows no bounds!

I just received word that two recent logo designs will be included in the in the forthcoming book Initials & Crests , the first volume i...

From FontShop founder Erik Spiekermann . NEVER use CAPITAL letters to accentuate words in running copy. They STICK OUT far too much spoilin...

FontShop has an interesting article about the recent Book, Jacket & Journal Show sponsored by The American Association of University ...

There has been a lot of discussion recently about Shepard Fairey's work. (More here and here. ) I am sure almost everyone has heard ab...

This looks fun, if not anything else. I don't know if we'll ever see it though. Their website was launched in 2007 and still says t...

Sometimes something just feels right… or wrong… Intuition is the ability to know things without reasoning or inferring… simply put… you just...