The Weekly Typographic

Why is Victorian typography so spooky?!

We’re fresh off of a great workshop last weekend with our friends at Spline. Big thanks to the many, many people who showed up to learn more about 3D type; we can’t wait to see what you create (make sure you tag us on Instagram and Twitter with what you learnt)...

How to describe a typeface

Don’t forget! This weekend we’re joined by Dan Cederholm, one of the OG founders of Dribbble, who will be sharing his empowering, positive, and practical insights into making your first font. Even though he’s a super experienced designer, he only made his first font in 2020, when a pesky pandemic gave him the gift of time and local inspiration...

Lettering versus type design skills

Look, we couldn’t cover this week’s type and design news without mentioning the big one… the meta-verse...

WTF is font mastering?!

New workshop! We’re delighted that the ever-so-skilled lettering artist Alanna Flowers is joining us for our next workshop (20-21 Nov). Wittily titled Bettering Your Lettering, you'll learn type & lettering basics that will give your work a strong foundation. It's totally beginner friendly and you'll be able to create a complete lettering piece over the two days...

The Look of Luxury

We’re super excited about this weekend’s workshop, Bettering Your Lettering with Alanna Flowers. We’ll be nerding out on getting started in lettering, and how to use these skills in your own lettering, type design, or even graphic design practice. It's totally beginner friendly and you'll be able to create a complete lettering piece over the two days. We love having something to show from a learning experience...

Know Your Value: Three Pricing Traps Creatives Fall Into

We’re back chattin’ type and design this week, and there’s a lot to cover! There’s another rebrand to add to the ever-growing fast-food rebrand list of 2021, Jony Ive has created something unexpected, WeTransfer have done a fascinating research piece on the state of creativity in 2021, and Monotype have gobbled up some more fonts ????.

In nerd alert we’ve got a special guest joining us...

This year's most share-worthy font reads

It’s (somehow?!) December and we’re wrapping up for the year by looking back on some of our most share-worthy type related reads of the year. We’ve trawled through our newsletter archive (ok, Micah wrote some code that pulled out the most popular articles) and revisited some of those topics and ideas that stuck with us.

So scroll down and listen in to find out what topped the links this year...

Our favorite free font finds of 2021

This week we’re wrapping up for the year by looking back at our favorite free fonts that we’ve found this year. We’ve dived back into the shares from the last 12 months and have enjoyed revisiting some of the ones we still can’t get enough of. We’ve got everything from workhorses to fancier scripts, and something pretty creative too.

So scroll down and listen in to find out what freebies we loved this year...

Woo! 2022!

We’re baaaaaack! New year, new podcasts, interviews, workshops, newsletter features, and of course, new type + design news. We’re super excited to be back on air with our first podcast of 2022, where we talk about a cool piece of work that Micah worked on with Google, a suuuuper inspirational project from Do-Hee Kim, a very exciting update to League Spartan (it moves!), some client conversation tips, and a good old revival project...

What's with all the death metal lettering?!

Ok, strap yourselves in, we’re talking metal this week. Late last year Olivia noticed the curious ‘trend’ of metal-esq lettering being used in all sorts of places. This inspired her to go DEEP into type detective mode and got into the stylistic musical and aesthetic differences in the sub-genres of metal, the logo legend behind so many metal logos, and why we’re seeing this crop up in some pretty unlikely places right now...