The Weekly Typographic

Drawing letterforms, beautiful alphabets and fixing font size

This week we're getting nerrrrdy. Not just in Nerd Alert, which is all about creating contrast in letterforms through translation and expansion, but in our articles too. We're finding out about the influential work of Gerrit Noordzij, looking at alternative ways of allocating sizes to fonts and admiring some beautiful 20th century alphabet samples. Let's get into it!

Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

What the hex, perfectionism, an anti-bullying font + more

We’re fresh off the back of our Drawing Letterforms workshops last weekend, and ready to share some new articles and nerdy goodness with you. This week we’re keeping on the theme of drawing letterforms with a guide to creating experimental letterforms for posters, plus how to overcome the perfectionism that often haunts us as designers. We’ve also learnt about a very cool font that is fighting online bullying...

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...

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.....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...