The Weekly Typographic

Type trends, accessibility, and how the industrial revolution revolutionized typography

We’re looking at some more trends this week - and it’s time for the typography trends of 2021 to get some airtime. We also talk typesetting considerations and the experience of reading digitally versus on paper, an important and practical thought-provoker on accessibility in design inspired by Stevie Wonder, and the role of typography in wayfinding...

???? The Neue Black launch, beautiful bottles + more

It’s an explosion of new typefaces this week. Including a very exciting addition to the League catalogue; Neue Black by our friend Tré Seals, of Vocal Type. We’ve also got a new release by Pangram Pangram, a bold rebrand out of Paula Scher’s Pentagram team, a piece about very expensive typefaces, and some nice bottle design. It really is a type and design party over here this week...

Logo trends, bold branding, and the origin of the English alphabet!

Last week we talked about what’s hot in packaging design, this week we’re turning our attention to logo trends. We’re also talking new typefaces, a bold, typographic-focused rebranding project and a little something fun out of Korea.

And over in Nerd Alert corner, Olivia is tackling the big topic of… the English alphabet...

New workshop alert! ???? Plus packaging and creativity

In an eclectic mix of articles this week, we’re looking at award-winning packaging design, the typographic evolution of the NY Times book review section, and a small study into the emotions that type and design can evoke. It’s a journey! PLUS find out more about our next workshop with Daniel Nisbet where you'll create your first digital characters...

The great design debate! Should you work freelance, or in-house?

There’s been an influx of new fonts in the last couple of weeks, we’re talking about the creation of one of them this week; Irregardless by OhNo Type Co. We’re also talking about the most popular web-fonts, and web-font design decisions, a quirky 'long S' from yesteryear, and a super cool resource from the folks at Airbnb Design...

Banknotes, branding and the optical magic of type design

Banknote design, typeface post-mortems, positioning statements and a heap of free resources. It’s time for another week of design news and nuggets of goodness from around the internet. We’re getting into some deep dives this week on design, but also thinking about the tools and approaches that will help our careers as designers. Check out this week’s links, and episode, for more on these conversations...

Elements of typographic style best bits + design experiments

This week we’re looking at some interesting and beautiful examples of concept and experimental work, checking out a potential new trend in cookbook design and bookmarking a useful overview of how some of the most popular modern typefaces came into existence...

Typefaces and culture, font classification controversy, microsites + more

Gosh! So much type and design news this week! We’re talking brand new fonts with big launches, a great type-collation project that captures the stories behind Latin American typefaces, Microsoft’s search for their new default font, and a brand-gone-bad. Phew...

Fonts with personality, letters as colors + Git for typographers

If you're in need of some visual inspiration this week, fear not, as we've got you covered. We're talking about a website that categorizes fonts by their personality traits, a tool that turns your typing into colors and shapes, a lettering project inspired by architecture, and the political history of the Windsor typeface. PLUS another nerdy Nerd Alert.....

Getting trendy, blanding, web fonts + more

We're feeling trendy this week. Monotype have released their type trend report so we dive into that, share a hot article about ink traps, and discuss an opinion piece about the formulaic approach to blanding. To top all of that off, there's also a handy guide to some of the technical details of working with web fonts. PLUS another nerdy Nerd Alert... this week all about the magic of open source...