The Weekly Typographic

Wingdings, Design Tips for Mobile & Type Anatomy We start this week with the question, why does Wingdings exist and how did it become so popular? We also have a great guide on the right way to use fonts on mobile apps, a type anatomy cheatsheet, and how you could use your face to interact with text in the future. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

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. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

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! Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

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. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

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. In our chat, we get a behind-the-scenes look at how this huge undertaking got started, what he's struggled with in his own experience in type and design, and strategies he's used to help him succeed.

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. Also, we share new typefaces that we are loving (and the process behind one of them) and our favorite new resource for freelancers. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

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. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

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. Plus, our Nerd Alert is all about understanding what makes lettering and typography so different, and some ideas of when to use which in your own projects. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

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. Lynne shares interesting insights on how to make big moves in your career, making type design more accessible, and some of the struggles a lot of us face going into new industries & not knowing anyone. This one really packs a punch, so make sure to tune in!

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. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

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. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Font Editor Roundup + Nike Alum Portfolio Review, Free Patterns & more! This week's episode really packs a punch! Olivia and Micah share their favorite links from this week including a site with open-source vector patterns, fascinating interviews with designers, and tips from a Nike alum to help perfect your portfolio. We top it off with a roundup of our favorite font editing software — giving the pros and cons of each. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Artistic Type, First Job Advice, Romanettes, and more!

The Font Licensing Lowdown + Portfolio Tips, Australia Rebrands, and more! This week's articles come from all around the world! We chat about a new experimental typeface from London, Australia's new logo, and the shiny new branding for Glasgow's football team. In our Nerd Alert segment we chat about the ins and outs of font licensing with loads of tips that will help you navigate any typographic territory. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

The Immortal Blackletter + How to Get More Clients, Design Systems, and more! This week's articles dive into the nuanced world of different Grotesque fonts, be inspired by how the Islandic Football Team rebranding was conceived with ancient history, see a fascinating rebranding journey with Maido and explore the importance of being a key contributor to a Design System — not even to mention our nerd alert diving into how an obscure category of ancient typography turned into the poster child for a handful of different subcultures in the modern world. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

What's the Deal with (John) Baskerville + AOC, Nike, and more! Extremely excited to share this week's podcast episode with you — Olivia & Micah talk about all the cool links we shared this week, plus dive into the story of John Baskerville an English businessman, who got rich off of japanning and papier-mâché, but he is best remembered for his eponymous typeface. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Spotify, Heinz, and Road Signs This week we've got 2 awesome rebrands from Spotify and Heinz, 3 hidden typography tips and a lovely Kickstarter campaign showcasing loads of amazing independent type designers! Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Chiseled Fonts, Cooper Black & W.E.B. Du Bois This week’s articles will take a closer look at how chiselled type became so popular, websites with awesome typographic designs, awesome case studies on typefaces for brands and a very fascinating deep dive into the data portraits of W.E.B. Du Bois, showing infographics on the disparity between black culture and white culture all the way back in the 1900s... and how that equally applies to today. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

DIY Pixel Fonts + A History of Variable Fonts This week, we'll dive into the world of variable fonts and how they are shaping up to change the way we read things online. We've also got a great tutorial on how to create your own monospace font and a glyph identification game to test your eye for certain designs. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

The Weekly Typographic — Season 02, Episode 02 Neumorphism, New MacOS Fonts, and more!