The Weekly Typographic

Tattoo Lettering

We’re back on our regular schedule after last week’s fun detour to collaborate with the Interrobang podcast (if you haven’t listened to that one, it’s a fun one, so make sure you scroll back a week in your podcast player to give it a listen)...

So you want to distribute a font?

We’ve been talking and thinking a lot lately about the different routes for designers who design type, but aren’t necessarily wanting to be full-time type designers. Do you need to start a foundry? How do you get your type out there? Do you have to distribute via one of the big platforms like Google or Adobe? (Spoiler alert: the answer to all of these questions is no)...

Emerging Type Tech Tools

Over the last couple of months, we’ve come across a few fancy new tools and tech for designers / type designers that have had us talking. So this week, we’ve packaged all of those up in a nice box and presented them to you as an audio (and newslettery) gift...

An interview with David Jonathan Ross

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again; the conversations we have with people from around the type and design industry make our hearts very happy. And this week is another example of that as we got to talk to the one and only David Jonathan Ross, or DJR. He shares his insights on what’s happening in the type world, how he runs his type design business, and much much more. It’s a fun conversation, we hope you love it too...

Adobe Fonts Deep Dive

Hands up if you enjoyed our conversation with DJR last week. It’s proving a popular episode - thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed it.

This week we’ve got some fresh new links to talk about, and a nerd alert that segues from last week’s interview. We’ve got some rather beautiful examples of 3D lettering created by a text to image AI generator, a riff on color fonts, UI chats, and a cool bespoke typeface out of Brazil...

2022 Retrospective

There’s a bit of a theme to this week’s articles, with a bit of a ‘using type on the web’ flavor to our links and discussions. Which is good because we get to pick Micah’s brain on some of these subtleties and clever tips on using type well in web designs.

As we move into the end of the year (how?!) we’re doing a few end-of-year-y conversations. Starting with this one, which is a bit of a retrospective on the 2022 year in design...

Our favorite share-worthy reads of 2022

Friends! We are fast approaching the end of the year, which means we get to start our traditional episodes of sharing some fam favorites from the year.

This week we’re sharing some articles that we loved reading, thinking, and talking about this year and have been noodling on ever since we first saw them...

Our favorite free fonts and tools of 2022

????It’s the final countdown, do do do doooooo….????

For our final newsletter and podcast for the year we’re talking about our favorite free finds of the year, featuring resources, fonts, and tools. We each picked one or two things we liked (or something we wanted an excuse to talk about again) and collected them here for you...