The Weekly Typographic

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 1

Surprise! We’re dropping into your podcast player a whole 24 hours early this week because we’re at TypeWknd 2021! Today's episode is our best bits from day 1 of the conference.

If you haven’t heard of TypeWknd, it’s an online-only type conference for everyone who sees, draws, makes, studies, and sells type...

Mixing Type & 3D with Spline

On this week’s podcast we're chatting to the founders of Spline, a hot new tool that allows you to create and publish 3D web experiences. We’ve had lots of fun playing with it over the last few weeks so we’re excited to talk to Faride Mereb & Alejandro Léon about the tool’s creation, what’s next for 3D type, and why all designers should be thinking in 3D...

Microsites, mega impact!

Where do we even BEGIN with this week’s special feature episode?! We’re nerding out about microsites for one. whole. episode. And we’re not going to lie - pulling these together has been the most fun. Special shout out if you sent Olivia a microsite recommendation on Twitter (@oliviakletters)...

Episode Notes

Just one day to go before our newest workshop kicks off! Don’t miss out on this chance to hear from type educator Kaleb Dean. We’re also excited about a hot-off-the-press write up (all the way from Australia) about creating a custom handwriting typeface, we’re learning how to use fonts for complex data, having our minds blown by molecular type, and getting hungry with some delicious restaurant branding...

Atomic design + brand new workshop announcement!

After last week’s fun interview with James Edmondson (make sure you go back and check it out if you missed it) we’re super excited to be back with heaps of type and design goodies for you. But, first up - we've got a new workshop to announce ????! School's back for Fall and we're kicking off with a new topic and a new instructor; Spacing and Rhythm taught by the fantastic Kaleb Dean, covering the important topic of spacing...

An interview with James Edmondson of OH no Type Co

We could not be more excited to share this fun and exclusive type-design-y nugget with you. This week, instead of our normal Weekly Typographic, we've got an interview with the one and only James Edmondson from OH no Type Co.

If you don't know James, he's an Oakland, California based type designer and runs OH no Type Co, an independent foundry...

Hinting: the invisible art of tiny type!

It would be impossible for us to ignore the biggest story in typography from the last week… Twitter’s new font. And more specifically, the Twitterverse’s reaction to it… which as you can imagine, was divided. We even made a late change our Nerd Alert topic for this week just so we could to talk to you about one of the technical elements of web fonts… called hinting...

What's the story with double storey?!

What’s the storey? (See what we did there?). This week on the podcast we’re having a fun nerdy conversation about why double and single storey letters exist, and some of their distinct and fun characteristics. But that’s not all! We’ve also got articles and associated chats about typography and gender stereotypes, a bold rebrand, some hot font pairing tips, and ways you can make your design more inclusive everyday. Which we are here for...

We're back! Design tokens: buzzword or designer's best friend?

We’re back! And nerdier than ever! Do we have a type party for you this week on the podcast. We’re getting into design books, some hot UX/UI tips, the impact that variable fonts will have on optical size, a super interesting type trend that’s emerging, and then our big conversation on design tokens...

Mid-year favorites: the best links and resources of 2021 so far

It’s been a big (huge!) six months! We’ve run workshops, added to the League’s portfolio of open-source fonts, put out a newsletter and podcast every week, shared some interviews, nerded out, and found some great inspiration and education on the internet to share with you. Phew...