itc was a type manufacturer founded in new york in 1970 by aaron burns herb lubalin and edward rondthaler . the company was one of the world s first type foundries to have no history in the production of metal type . it is now a wholly owned brand or subsidiary of monotype imaging . contents 1 history 2 fonts 3 u & lc magazine 4 acquisitions and mergers 5 references 6 external links history edit the company was founded to design license and market typefaces for filmsetting and computer set types internationally . the company issued both new designs and revivals of older or classic faces invariably re cut to be suitable for digital typesetting use and produced in families of different weights . although it is claimed that the designers took care to preserve the style and character of the original typefaces several itc revivals such as itc bookman and itc garamond in particular have received criticism that the end result was related in name only to the original faces . among the company s notable type designers was ed benguiat the creator of tiffany and benguiat fonts . itc s revival designs frequently followed a formulary of increased x height multiple weights from light to ultra bold multiple widths and unusual ligature combinations sometimes with alternate characters . critics sometimes complain that while the dramatically higher x height increased legibility in smaller point sizes in normal text sizes the extreme height of the lowercase characters imparted a commercial subjective voice to texts . in recent years several new revivals have been praised for showing more historical accuracy and for not increasing the x height to the dramatic heights of earlier itc typeface revivals . fonts edit itc american typewriter itc anna itc avant garde gothic itc barcelona itc bauhaus itc benguiat and benguiat gothic itc berkeley old style itc blair itc bookman itc bradley hand itc caslon itc century gothic itc charter itc conduit itc edwardian script itc eras itc franklin gothic itc friz quadrata itc garamond itc handel gothic itc kabel itc korinna itc leawood itc lubalin graph itc matisse itc modern no. 216 neue aachen itc new baskerville itc obliqua itc officina sans itc serif gothic itc souvenir itc stone sans itc tiffany itc willow u & lc magazine edit see also herb lubalin u & lc magazine the company published u & lc upper and lower case a typographic magazine dedicated to showcasing their traditional and newer typefaces in particularly creative ways originally edited and designed by herb lubalin until his death in may 1981 . because of its extraordinary blend of typographic design illustration and cartoons sometimes by world renowned artists and cartoonists such as lou myers verse and prose extolling the virtues of well designed type as well as contributions by amateur or semi professional typographers the magazine was avidly read by type enthusiasts and sought after by collectors the world over . a web version of the magazine started in 1998 along with a brand new sans serif logo by mark van bronkhorst replacing the famous swash lettered logo by herb lubalin . in an editorial john d. berry wrote there ll be plenty of overlap between the print magazine and the online magazine but they won t be identical some things are best done with ink on paper others are best done on screen . yet the paper edition which in 1998 had shrunk in format from tabloid pages to 8.5 x 11 did not survive for long . the final printed edition was vol . 26 no. 2 dated fall 1999 . 1 it had more pages than other issues in the new format by virtue of inclusion of a catalog of the itc font collection . the last numbered u & lc issue is 42.1.1 issued in 2010 . a book celebrating u & lc u & lc influencing design & typography by john d. berry the magazine s final editor isbn 0 9724240 9 1 was published by mark batty in 2005 . in october 2010 allan haley announced on the fonts.com blog that the complete run of u & lc had been digitized and would be made available one year s worth per month via pdf download from that same blog . 2 as part of fonts.com redesign in 2012 3 access to u & lc were moved to fonts.com blog and learn about fonts & typography for various u & lc web edition articles . acquisitions and mergers edit in 1986 the company was acquired by esselte letraset who had taken over letraset originally makers of the first dry transfer lettering and later to become developers of new typefaces for filmsetting and computer applications . in 2000 agfa monotype corporation announced the acquisition of the capital stock of international typeface corporation itc from esselte . the transaction included itc s complete library of over 1600 typefaces all typeface subscriber and distributor agreements the itcfonts.com web site and typographic software . at this point itc ceased to operate as an independent entity . in november 2005 agfa monotype was incorporated as monotype imaging with a focus on the company s traditional core competencies of typographic design and professional printing . famous contemporary typographers associated with monotype include adrian frutiger hermann zapf and matthew carter . references edit blackwell lewis . 20th century type . yale university press 2004 . isbn 0 300 10073 6 . fiedl frederich nicholas ott and bernard stein . typography an encyclopedic survey of type design and techniques through history . black dog & leventhal 1998 . isbn 1 57912 023 7 . the last u & lc u & lc back issues to be made available redesigned fonts.com premiers with new look and features new site offers a single source for desktop and web fonts external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to international typeface corporation . itc homepage monotype imaging u & lc upper and lower case magazine itc bradley hand example v t e typography terminology page canons of page construction column even working margin page numbering pagination pull quote recto and verso paragraph alignment justification 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