ILENE STRIZVER is the founder of The Type Studio in Westport, Connecticut. She writes and teaches extensively on typography. During her career, she's been creative and production director of Upper & lowercase (U&lc) and director of typeface development at International Typeface Corporation (ITC) in New York City, where she developed more than 300 text and display typefaces with such respected type designers as Summer Stone, Erik Spiekermann, Jill Bell, Jim Parkinson, and the late Phill Grimshaw.