The Weekly Typographic

Brush Lettering, Free Icons & Money Talk on Pricing for Creatives

We've got some neat links this week, but an extra special episode on everyone's favorite taboo topic — pricing. As a freelancer, it's tough to talk about it, and there's advice going every which direction, so we wanted to share a little of our own reading & experience about stuff like hourly vs. flat-fee, asking for money upfront, and more.

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How to pair fonts, TV title card type, & pricing!

Pumped to share this week's podcast episode with you — Olivia & Micah talk about all the cool links from this week including the gorgeous title cards for Perry Mason and great tips for picking and pairing fonts. Plus, they take some time to share their most effective questions to ask during client calls.

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Interview with Type Designer & Educator Lynne Yun

We've got a bonus episode — an interview with the extraordinary Lynne Yun! Lynne has a fascinating career. She's worked at Apple, several hotshot ad companies, Monotype, and is currently an educator at Type@Cooper, Parsons School of Design and Letterform Archive...

Custom Lettering vs. Typography, Design Books, and Robot Designers

This week’s typography articles are practical with an inspirational edge starting with some info on adjusting type leading on the web, how to use white space characters, the process of perfectly nailing contrasts and the curious story about a totally AI designer...

Custom fonts, bold typefaces and famous logos

This week’s newsletter has a special focus on custom typography — besides a handful of awesome resources and links about it, we've got an awesome Nerd Alert about why so many companies have been getting their own fonts designed for them instead of using type off the shelf.

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Fonts vs Typefaces, Freelance Resources & more!

This week we'll be diving into one of the most frequently asked questions for those not yet in the know — what's the difference between a font and a typeface, and why you should care! We'll chat about how it relates to licensing and why you sometimes see so many similar fonts under the same name...

Interview with TypeWknd Co-Founder Daniel Nisbet

If you haven't been keeping up with all of the latest type news, TypeWknd is coming up, and is a massive, global and diverse online conference about all things typography. A bunch of well-known people in the type world are contributing and Daniel is a wonderful soul who helped get it off the ground from the beginning...

Font Licensing Basics, Comic Sans, and Lawyers

Keeping with the theme of important licensing topics, we're diving this week into a handful of relatable, scary stories of font licensing gone wrong! We chat about some new font releases, Instagram & Comic Sans, and a bunch more in probably one of our most fun episodes yet.

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TypeWknd Highlights

We've got a special podcast for you today! We just couldn't get enough of TypeWknd (that awesome global, online type conference last weekend) so we've dedicated this episode to sharing our favorite presentations from the event. We're lucky that the talks are available online, so everything we discuss is available for viewing on YouTube. Hooray!

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The History of Monospace Fonts

This week, besides diving into fallback fonts, Futura, and a few other great links, we talk about where monospace fonts came from historically and how they've affected the designs you might be making today.

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