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U&lc Volume 23

New Fonts – Lots Of New Fonts – And A Leap Into The Digital Age Volume 23, Number 2 of U&lc asks the question, “Is the availability of 50,000 to 60,000 digital fonts too many?” That was in the fall of 1996. In the 16 years since then, that . . .

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U&lc Volume 21

New Fonts, New Technology and Predictions For The Future The pages of U&lc Volume 21 ushered in a typeface family extension, two new complete families, four single-weight display designs, eight Cyrillic family additions and a suite of fonts that took advantage of a new technology. Volume 21 also . . .

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U&lc Volume 20

A Bevy of New Typefaces – And Thomas Wolfe is Proved Wrong. I was enjoying reading the four issues of U&lc Volume 20 in preparation for writing this blog – until something on one of the pages caused me to reflect a little more than usual on the publication and my . . .

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U&lc Volume 19

U&lc Volume 19 is a feast of world-class typographic design. Each issue is a tour-de-force created by a different studio or designer. WBMG Design (Walter Bernard, Milton Glaser, and Frank Baseman) designed Volume 19, Number One. The work of Alexander Isley, Seymour Chwast and Paul Davis . . .

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U&lc Volume 17 - Questions & typefaces for the next decade

The four issues of U&lc, Volume Seventeen, were published in 1990; a year that presented graphic designers with unanswered questions about the future of typographic communication – and one that marked ITC’s twentieth anniversary. Among a great crop of articles on everything from Japanese kites to the Vigeland Sculpture . . .

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Volume 16 - Something New And More Of The Same Great Stuff

You may notice something different in the last two issues of U&lc Volume Sixteen. The table of contents, that normally ran on page one of each issue, is moved back several pages to make way for advertising. Letraset, primarily known as the premier provider of dry transfer lettering the . . .

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U&lc Volume Fourteen - Cool Covers, More Families & Daniel Pelavin

There were only three issues of U&lc in Volume Fourteen but, from cover to last page, each was packed with great content for lovers of type, lettering and typography. New typefaces were announced, more “families” were written about, antique crafts were celebrated, and an illustrator – soon to become a . . .

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U&lc Volume Twelve: The Danger of Predictions

Ed Gottschall’s editorial column in Volume Twelve number One of U&lc stated, “… As ITC moves through its 15th year, it is appropriate to consider how the world of typography has changed since 1970 and where we believe it is heading by the year 2000.” Gottschall goes on to . . .

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U&lc Volume Eleven: Two Important Firsts

Volume Eleven of U&lc is chock full of great examples of typographic design, calligraphy and illustration. In addition, the first commercial typeface of Jovica Veljovic was announced in Volume Eleven Number One and ITC released its first typeface that was the result of a collaboration of artistry and technology . . .

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U&lc Volume Ten - ITC Finds New Elegance

Volume Ten of U&lc was very important to me. Volume Ten Number One announced the results of the first typeface project I worked on for ITC, and Volume Ten Number Three was the first time an article with my byline appeared in the publication . . .

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U&lc Volume Seven - U&lc Predicts the Future

Ed Gottschall, the editor of U&lc in the late 1970s and early 1980s, loved technology. Although he wore a suit and tie to work everyday, he was a certifiable geek. He also had a lot to be geeky about. During his tenure as editor, the manner in which typographic . . .

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U&lc Volume Six: More Than Just Type

ITC was hitting its stride in the late 1970s. It was releasing a wide range of distinctive typefaces and U&lc had grown into a significantly influential journal – and not just about type and typography . . .

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U&lc Volume 5

U&lc began its fifth year of publication in 1978 and was fully established as a unique source of great typographic design, harbinger of new typefaces, cornucopia of information about typography and its practitioners – and the occasional prediction about the future of our craft. Graphic designers would eagerly await the . . .

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U&lc Volume Four: Historic Insight & A Look to the Future

The advertisements in the old issues of U&lc can be great fun to look at. They provide glimpses into the typesetting technologies, type trends, and design fashions of the time. The advertisements, however, can also be great sources of typographic history – as in the case of the ITC Galliard . . .

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U&lc Volume Three & Hermann Zapf

After a 10-year hiatus, Hermann Zapf began designing typefaces again in 1976 – and the first were announced in volume three of U&lc. The Palatino®, Optima®, and Melior® typefaces are just some of the designs Zapf created early in his career. These typefaces were designed for Linotype at a . . .

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Volume No. 2 of U&lc Available for Download

Two assassination attempts were made on U.S. President Ford in 1975. He survived both. The construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline also began in 1975 and The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in American theatres. In the same year, the name “Micro-soft” (for microcomputer software) was used . . .

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