S4E5 - Kili, Originality, and Calendars 📅 from 2023-07-14T12:00

Kili, Originality, and Calendars 📅

A wild ride this week — from chatting about Clippy-esque rebrands, to conceptual UX and calendars, to the fine line between a font revival and copyin...

A little note from our founder ✨ from 2023-07-07T12:00

A little note from our founder ✨

We interrupt your regularly scheduled link-chat to talk a tiny bit about where The League came from — and ask an important question.

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S4E4 - Recraft, Grid Levels, and Surveyor 🗺️ from 2023-06-23T12:00

Recraft, Grid Levels, and Surveyor 🗺️

This week, in a bit of a rapid-fire episode, Thomas and Micah chat about a handful of cool tools, inspiration, and detailed type design articles t...

S4E3 - Abstract, Berlow, and Color 🎨 from 2023-06-16T12:00

Abstract, Berlow, and Color 🎨

This week, we dive into some fun articles on ASCII art & fonts, the grandfather of type's (David Berlow) catalog getting acquired by Monotype, and a b...

S4E2 - StyleDrop, Tank-Man,&The Olympics 🏊🏻 from 2023-06-09T12:00

StyleDrop, Tank-Man, & The Olympics 🏊🏻

Extremely excited to share this week's podcast episode with you — Micah & summer co-host Thomas Jockin talk about all the cool links we ...

S4E1 - Origins, Upgrades, and Gushers🍬 from 2023-06-02T12:00

Origins, Upgrades, and Gushers 🍬

This week, Micah will be back, joined by our summer guest co-host, Thomas Jockin, to nerd out, talk type, and discuss all the links from this week.

S3E18 - Our favorite free fonts and tools of 2022 from 2022-12-16T12:59

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...

S3E17 - Our favorite share-worthy reads of 2022 from 2022-12-09T12:59

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...

S3E16 - 2022 Retrospective from 2022-12-02T12:59

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 Mi...

S3E15 - Adobe Fonts Deep Dive from 2022-11-18T12:00

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 ...

S3E14 - An interview with David Jonathan Ross from 2022-11-11T12:00

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 ha...

S3E13 - Emerging Type Tech Tools from 2022-11-04T12:00

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 pa...

S3E12 - So you want to distribute a font? from 2022-10-28T12:00

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 t...

S3E11 - Tattoo Lettering from 2022-10-21T12:00

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 mak...

S3E10 - Weekly Typographic x Interrogang from 2022-10-12T12:00

Weekly Typographic x Interrogang Crossover

Do not adjust your sets! We are coming to you this week with a very special (early) episode with our first crossover episode. And we couldn't ...

S3E9 - Packaging Design Storytime from 2022-10-07T12:00

Packaging Design Storytime: From Dieline to Production Line

Settle down children, and pull up a comfy seat - it’s story time.

Join Olivia and Micah in the reading corner for this...

S3E8 - Startup Design Trends from 2022-09-30T12:00

Startup Design Trends

We’re back to regular scheduling this week with Micah and Olivia chatting about all things type and design. And we're gonna be honest, this week’s links are a some...

S3E7 - An Interview with Beatriz Lozano from 2022-09-23T12:00

An Interview with Beatriz Lozano

We’re having a chat with another designer this week, and we’re super excited that that designer is the wonderful Beatriz Lozano [insert cheers and whoop...

S3E6 - 3D Type Showcase: A Brave Neue World from 2022-09-16T12:00

3D Type Showcase: A Brave Neue World

Every so often we like to take a longer look at a certain type/design style or part of the industry. We’ve been seeing a lot of interesting 3D desig...

S3E5 - Trial Fonts and Tribulations from 2022-09-09T12:00

Trial Fonts and Tribulations

This week Olivia is joined by Steph and they are having a big old chat about trial fonts; what we like about them, what annoys us about them, their possibil...

S3E4 - Maximizing Marketing: Taking Your Type to the People from 2022-09-02T12:00

Maximizing Marketing: Taking Your Type to the People

There’s a bit of everything in this week’s newsletter and chats; a super detailed behind the scenes on an iconic rebrand, some handy...

S3E3 - An Interview with Libbie Bischoff, Founder of Type Du Nord from 2022-08-26T12:00

An Interview with Libbie Bischoff, Founder of Type Du Nord

We’re not going to lie, one of the things that gives us the most energy is talking to type designers / people working...

S3E2 - DALL-E 2: Are we all out of jobs? from 2022-08-19T12:00

DALL-E 2: Are we all out of jobs?

It’s so good to be back in recording mode, and this week we took it to the next level by recording IN THE SAME PLACE! Olivia took a lil road trip to se...

S3E1 - It's Season 3 (baby!) from 2022-08-12T12:00

It's Season 3, Baby!

FRIENDS! WE'RE BACK! And not only are we back on the podcast, but we're 'back to school' as we have a new workshop happening later this month with the wonderful Ali...

S2E88 - Season 2 wrap! from 2022-06-10T12:00

Season 2 wrap

It’s the end of season 2! There’s exactly zero rhyme or reason to when we call time on a season (see the fact season 1 was about three months, and season 2 has be...

S2E87 - An interview with designer and educator Juan Villanueva from 2022-06-03T12:00

An interview with Juan Villanueva

We’re just going to say it. We love Juan Villanueva. So we’re especially happy to have him joining us on the podcast this week for a chat about type de...

S2E86 - Web3: what we've learned so far from 2022-05-27T12:00

Web3: what we've learned so far

We’ve been teasing this topic for MONTHS and we’ve finally pulled together all our learnings so far about web3/NFTs to make an episode. This will be part...

S2E85 - Episode 100! from 2022-05-20T12:00

Episode 100!

We did it!! We made it to episode 100! We’re taking a little trip down memory lane this week and sharing some of the origin stories that you might not know about your favor...

S2E84 - Designing a custom font for UI: The story of Spline Sans from 2022-05-13T13:42:09

Designing a custom for for UI

It’s another special interview episode! This week type designers Eben Sorkin and Mirko Velimirovic join us for a chat. They are two of the creators behind ...

S2E83 - The realities of open source from 2022-05-06T12:00

The realities of open source

This week’s newsletter is pretty much one big ball of wholesome goodness. There’s a fun retro project, a super detailed article about variable fonts, a desi...

S2E82 - An interview with Chris Skillern of Tulsey Type from 2022-04-29T19:49:12

An interview with Chris Skillern of Tulsey Type

One of the things we really love about doing this podcast is the opportunity to chat to type designers, and especially newer designers wh...

S2E81 - A point in time: the history of type sizing from 2022-04-22T12:00

A point in time: the history of type sizing

We’re back to some nerdy nerdiness in this week’s episode, featuring a nerd alert all about the weird and wonderful history of type sizing sy...

S2E80 - Five Indie Foundries to Follow from 2022-04-15T12:00

Five Indie Foundries to Follow

It’s Good Friday, and whether you celebrate the Easter holiday or not, we thought we’d use the long weekend as a good excuse to celebrate some indie found...

S2E79 - Type Design School Round Up from 2022-04-01T12:00

Type Design School Round Up

Lots of nerdy goodness this week, and don’t worry, no April Fools gags here - just good, honest typographic fun. We’re looking at a cool open source tool tha...

S2E78 - Font Pairing Pitfalls from 2022-03-25T12:15

Font Pairing Pitfalls

We’re hopping all over pop culture, tech, and some nerdy education this week. We’re looking at a very cool new free tool to create your own experimental typography...

S2E77 - Trendy Type from 2022-03-18T12:59

Trendy Type

All your dreams have come true. We’re doing a workshop about pairing AND we’re doing it with the wonderful Oliver Schöndorfer. That’s right, the topic that drops into our in...

S2E76 - Book Design Storytime: From Front Cover to Back cover from 2022-03-11T12:59

Book Design Storytime: From Front Cover to Back cover

Friends! We’ve got another workshop happening soon. No spoilers yet, but keep your peepers peeled next week for more juicy deets. C...

S2E75 - Geography typography from 2022-03-04T12:59

Geography Typography

Whoop! We had a great workshop with Thomas Jockin earlier this week talking everything about the pitch. We not only talked about pitching custom type to your client...

S2E74 - How to start a revival project from 2022-02-25T12:59

How to start a revival project

It’s almost time! Next week we’re talking custom type pitching at our next workshop with guest instructor Thomas Jockin. Thomas is joining us to share his...

S2E73 - The business of custom type from 2022-02-18T12:59

The business of custom type

ICYMI we’ve got a super interesting new workshop happening right at the end of this month, all about the biz-niss side of custom type design. And we’ve asked...

S2E72 - Love type: fonts and romance from 2022-02-11T12:59

Love type: fonts and romance

New workshop alert!! We’re so excited to partner with our very clever friend Thomas Jockin and give you the chance to dig into his amazing business brain wh...

S2E71 - Books for the brain from 2022-02-04T12:59

Books for the brain

It’s book week here at the League and we’re getting nerdy talking about some of the best type design books around at the moment, particularly some more recent releas...

An interview with Olivia King, design director and type designer from 2022-01-28T12:59

An interview with Olivia King, design director and type designer

It’s a double dose of OK this week as our own Olivia Kane is interviewing the Australian design director and type design...

S2E70 - What's with all the death metal lettering?! from 2022-01-21T12:59

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 i...

S2E69 - Woo! 2022! from 2022-01-14T12:59

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 fir...

S2E68 - Our favorite free font finds of 2021 from 2021-12-17T12:59

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 fro...

S2E67 - This year's most share-worthy font reads! from 2021-12-10T12:59

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...

S2E66 - Know Your Value: Three Pricing Traps Creatives Fall Into from 2021-12-03T12:59

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 fa...

An interview with Sarah Hyndman of Type Tasting from 2021-11-26T12:59

An interview with Sarah Hyndman of Type Tasting

It’s interview time this week as we fully nerd out with Sarah Hyndman. Sarah is the founder of Type Tasting and use typography to create ...

S2E65 - The look of luxury: brands, bags&breaking the rules from 2021-11-19T12:59

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 ...

S2E64 - WTF is font mastering?! from 2021-11-12T12:59

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 ...

S2E63 - Lettering versus type design skills from 2021-11-05T12:00

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. What does it mean for designers? How will th...

An interview with Nadine Chahine of I Love Typography from 2021-10-29T12:00

An interview with Nadine Chahine of I Love Typography

Wow, what a weekend of learning with Dan Cederholm last week. Dan was so generous with his font design knowledge and we loved the s...

S2E62 - How to describe a typeface from 2021-10-22T12:00

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 insi...

S2E61 - Why is Victorian typography so spooky?! from 2021-10-15T12:00

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 abou...

S2E60 - The world of syllabics and why they matter now from 2021-10-08T12:00

The world of syllabics and why they matter now

What a few weeks! After interviews, conferences and collaborations, we’re back and chatting about some type and design news. Including the...

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 4 from 2021-10-03T12:00

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 4

What a weekend! We’ve been dropping into your podcast player all weekend because we’re at TypeWknd 2021! Today's episode is our best bits from the f...

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 3 from 2021-10-02T12:00

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 3

Surprise! We’re dropping into your podcast player all weekend because we’re at TypeWknd 2021! Today's episode is our best bits from day 3 of the con...

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 2 from 2021-10-01T12:00

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 2

Surprise! We’re dropping into your podcast player all weekend because we’re at TypeWknd 2021! Today's episode is our best bits from day 2 of the con...

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 1 from 2021-09-30T12:00

Typewknd 2021: Highlights from Day 1

Surprise! We’re dropping into your podcast player a whole 24 hours early this week because we’re at TypeWknd 2021! Today's episode is our best bits ...

Mixing Type&3D with Spline from 2021-09-24T12:00

Mixing Type & 3D with Spline

On this week’s podcast we're chatting to the founders of Spline, a hot new tool that allows you to create and publish 3D web experiences. We’ve had lots...

S2E59 - Microsites, mega impact! from 2021-09-17T12:00

Microsites, mega impact!

Where do we even BEGIN with this week’s special feature episode?! We’re nerding out about microsites for one. whole. episode. And we’re not going to lie - pulli...

S2E58 - Time, space, rhythm and pace: the art of letter-spacing from 2021-09-10T12:00

Episode Notes

Just one day to go before our newest workshop kicks off! Don’t miss out on this chance to hear from type educator Kaleb Dean. We’re also excited about a hot-off-the-press ...

S2E57 - Atomic design + brand new workshop announcement! from 2021-09-03T12:00

Atomic design + brand new workshop announcement!

After last week’s fun interview with James Edmondson (make sure you go back and check it out if you missed it) we’re super excited to be...

An interview with James Edmondson of OH no Type Co from 2021-08-27T12:00

An interview with James Edmondson of OH no Type Co

We could not be more excited to share this fun and exclusive type-design-y nugget with you. This week, instead of our normal Weekly Ty...

An interview with James Edmondson of OH no Type Co from 2021-08-27T12:00

An interview with James Edmondson of OH no Type Co

We could not be more excited to share this fun and exclusive type-design-y nugget with you.
This week, instead of our normal W...

S2E56 - Hinting: the invisible art of tiny type! from 2021-08-20T12:00

Hinting: the invisible art of tiny type!

It would be impossible for us to ignore the biggest story in typography from the last week… Twitter’s new font. And more specifically, the Twitt...

S2E55 - What's the story with double storey?! from 2021-08-13T12:00

What's the story with double storey?!

What’s the storey? (See what we did there?). This week on the podcast we’re having a fun nerdy conversation about why double and single storey lett...

S2E54 - We're back! Design tokens: buzzword or designer's best friend? from 2021-08-06T12:00

We're back! Design tokens: buzzword or designer's best friend?

We’re back! And nerdier than ever! Do we have a type party for you this week on the podcast. We’re getting into design boo...

S2E53 - Mid-year favorites: the best links and resources of 2021 so far from 2021-07-02T12:00

Mid-year favorites: the best links and resources of 2021 so far

It’s been a big (huge!) six months! We’ve run workshops, added to the League’s portfolio of open-source fonts, put out a ...

S2E52 - Type trends, accessibility, and how the industrial revolution revolutionized typography from 2021-06-25T12:00

Type trends, accessibility, and how the industrial revolution revolutionized typography

We’re looking at some more trends this week - and it’s time for the typography trends of 2021 to ...

S2E51 - 🎉The Neue Black launch, beautiful bottles + more from 2021-06-18T12:00

🎉 The Neue Black launch, beautiful bottles + more

It’s an explosion of new typefaces this week. Including a very exciting addition to the League catalogue; Neue Black by our friend Tré...

S2E50 - Logo trends, bold branding, and the origin of the English alphabet! from 2021-06-11T12:00

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...

S2E49 - New workshop alert! 📣Plus packaging and creativity from 2021-06-04T12:00

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...

S2E48 - The great design debate! Should you work freelance, or in-house? from 2021-05-28T12:00

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 we...

S2E47 - Banknotes, branding and the optical magic of type design from 2021-05-21T12:00

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 desig...

S2E46 - Elements of typographic style best bits + design experiments from 2021-05-14T12:00

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 potentia...

S2E45 - Typefaces and culture, font classification controversy, microsites + more from 2021-05-07T12:00

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-col...

S2E44 - Fonts with personality, letters as colors + Git for typographers from 2021-04-30T12:00

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 websit...

S2E43 - Getting trendy, blanding, open source, web fonts + more from 2021-04-23T12:00

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 ...

S2E42 - What the hex, perfectionism, an anti-bullying font + more from 2021-04-16T12:00

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 goodn...

S2E41 - Drawing letterforms, beautiful alphabets and fixing font size from 2021-04-09T12:00

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 transla...

S2E40 - Asterisk History, Another Car Rebrand, Justin Bieber, Drop Caps + More! from 2021-04-02T12:00

Asterisk History, Another Car Rebrand, Justin Bieber, Drop Caps + More!

Last week we took a trip around the world, and this week, we're taking a trip through history. From the evolution...

S2E39 - Pokémon, watch typography, Garamond banned + more! from 2021-03-26T12:00

Pokémon, watch typography, Garamond banned + more!

Wow, this edition goes everywhere. From font-based Pokémon hunting in Minnesota (you read that right), to a DC Courtroom where they're...

#53 - The Ethics of Type, Finding Your Inner Compass + What Are SVG Fonts? from 2021-03-19T13:00

The ethics of type and what the heck are SVG fonts?!

What a party this week! After last week's interview with Tré Seals of Vocal Type, we had a couple of links we were hungry to sha...

S2E38 - The Ethics of Type, Finding Your Inner Compass + What Are SVG Fonts? from 2021-03-19T12:00

The ethics of type and what the heck are SVG fonts?!

What a party this week! After last week's interview with Tré Seals of Vocal Type, we had a couple of links we were hungry to share —...

S2E37 - Interview with Vocal Type Co. Founder Tré Seals from 2021-03-12T11:50

Interview with Vocal Type Co. Founder Tré Seals

This week, we've got an interview with one of the best, most down-to-earth & talented type designers we know. Tré Seals is the founde...

S2E36 - The Vignelli Paradox, Free Design eBooks + Sustainable Fonts from 2021-03-05T12:00

The Vignelli Paradox, Free Design eBooks + Sustainable Fonts

A whole lot of fun packed into this week's episode — in links this week, we have a great tutorial on color theory in digital...

S2E35 - Font Production&Engineering from 2021-02-26T15:00:57

Font Production & Engineering

Oh what a week — we had more than we could fit in this week, but we wanted to start with something we've been working on lately that you're gonna like....

S2E34 - How to Network, Arcade Game Typography, and more! 👾 from 2021-02-19T13:00

How to Network, Arcade Game Typography, and more! 👾

This week's episode truly packs a punch — we've got a feature on arcade game typography, the inside scoop on what it's like to be a ...

S2E33 - The Four Most Important Letters in Type Design from 2021-02-12T19:00:03

The Four Most Important Letters in Type Design

What a party this week — from grocery packaging to color fonts, with inspiration & type design thrown in. And a pretty fun intro to a ...

S2E32 - Legibility vs Readability, Uniwidth Typefaces, and more! from 2021-02-05T12:45

Legibility vs Readability, Uniwidth Typefaces, and more!

This week we're going into detail about what really is the difference between the terms legibility and readability and why it's ...

S2E31 - Typeface Classifications They Didn't Teach You in School from 2021-01-29T13:00:51

Typeface Classifications They Didn't Teach You in School

Besides our fun roundup this week, including one of our favorite new type design books, a visually readable braille, and a fasci...

S2E30 - The Lost Art of the Ex Libris, Burger King's Rebrand&Fictional Fonts from 2021-01-15T13:25

The Lost Art of the Ex Libris, Burger King's Rebrand & Fictional Fonts

This week we've got a handful of interesting stories to share. The highly discussed new BK branding, some fict...

S2E29 - Our Favorite Share-worthy Font Reads of 2020 ✨ from 2020-12-18T13:00:41

Our Favorite Share-worthy Font Reads of 2020 ✨

As the end of the year rolls around, we present our final ✨holiday edition✨ Weekly Typographic! Our "greatest hits" list this week is all ...

S2E28 - Our Favorite Free Resources From 2020 💫 from 2020-12-11T12:55

Our Favorite Free Resources from 2020 💫

We're back again with another special holiday edition Weekly Typographic! Our "greatest hits" list this week is all about our favorite free reso...

S2E27 - Our Favorite Free Font Finds from 2020 ✨ from 2020-12-04T13:00:16

Our Favorite Free Font Finds from 2020 ✨

As the last few weeks of the year roll around, we've decided to approach the newsletter a little bit differently this month. These special ✨holi...

S2E26 - The Futura Underdog, A Font-Lover Gift Guide + Pricing Advice from 2020-11-20T13:03

The Futura Underdog, A Font-Lover Gift Guide + Pricing Advice

This week we're chatting about an incredible round-up of type-related articles and resources. We share a gift guide for all...

S2E25 - Interview with 'Designing Type' Author&Educator Karen Cheng from 2020-11-13T12:55

Interview with 'Designing Type' Author & Educator Karen Cheng

We have a special episode for you this week—an interview with the inimitable Karen Cheng! Karen has been teaching type ...

S2E24 - Typesetting Latin-Based Languages, Jazz Type, and more! from 2020-11-06T13:00

Typesetting Latin-Based Languages, Jazz Type, and more!

This week, we've got a couple of in-depth guides about the different kinds of typesetting rules for the most widely used Latin-ba...

S2E23 - Interrobangs, Drop Caps + Victorian Type from 2020-10-30T12:00

Interrobangs, Drop Caps + Victorian Type

This week might be our most fun one yet! We talk about our two favorite obscure glyphs: the interrobang and the manicule. We discuss their origi...

S2E22 - Our All-Time Favorite Books on Type, Design&Lettering from 2020-10-23T12:00:50

Our All-Time Favorite Books on Type, Design & Lettering

Besides chatting about a handful of fun, somber, and educational resources, we're diving into a few recommendations for books...

S2E21 - Wingdings, Design Tips for Mobile&Type Anatomy from 2020-10-16T12:00

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 r...

S2E20 - The History of Monospace Fonts from 2020-10-09T12:00:32

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 the...

S2E19 - TypeWknd Highlights from 2020-10-02T12:00

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...

S2E18 - Font Licensing Basics, Comic Sans, and Lawyers from 2020-09-25T12:00:26

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 ...

S2E17 - Interview with TypeWknd Co-Founder Daniel Nisbet from 2020-09-16T16:00

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 conf...

S2E16 - Fonts vs Typefaces, Freelance Resources&more! from 2020-09-11T12:00

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 betwe...

S2E15 - Custom fonts, bold typefaces and famous logos from 2020-09-04T12:00:35

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 a...

S2E14 - Custom Lettering vs. Typography, Design Books, and Robot Designers from 2020-08-21T12:00:27

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 lea...

S2E13 - Interview with Type Designer&Educator Lynne Yun from 2020-08-19T13:00

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, s...

S2E12 - How to pair fonts, TV title card type,&pricing! from 2020-08-14T12:00

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 th...

S2E11 - Brush Lettering, Free Icons&Money Talk on Pricing for Creatives from 2020-08-07T12:00:18

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 ...

S2E10 - Font Editor Roundup + Nike Alum Portfolio Review, Free Patterns&more! from 2020-07-31T12:00

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 includin...

S2E9 - Artistic Type, First Job Advice, and Romanettes from 2020-07-24T12:00:10

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

This week we're talkin' some fun rebrandings, unique typography design-as-art, getting your first design gig (and thoughts on i...

S2E8 - The Font Licensing Lowdown + Portfolio Tips, Australia Rebrands, and more! from 2020-07-17T12:00

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, Au...

S2E7 - The Immortal Blackletter + How to Get More Clients, Design Systems, and more! from 2020-07-10T12:00:30

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 Islan...

S2E6 - What's the Deal with (John) Baskerville + AOC, Nike, and more! from 2020-07-03T12:00:22

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 shar...

S2E5 - Spotify, Heinz, and Road Signs from 2020-06-26T12:00:35

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 inde...

S2E4 - Chiseled Fonts, Cooper Black&W.E.B. Du Bois from 2020-06-19T12:00:11

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, awesom...

S2E3 - DIY Pixel Fonts + A History of Variable Fonts from 2020-06-12T12:00:02

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 ...

S2E2 - Neumorphism, New MacOS Fonts, and more! 🔖 from 2020-05-29T13:00:58

The Weekly Typographic — Season 02, Episode 02

Neumorphism, New MacOS Fonts, and more! 🔖

Our second bimble back, talking about some great new fonts Mac users have access to, a...

S2E1 - The Juicy History of Italics, Letterform Archive, and more! from 2020-05-22T12:00

The Weekly Typographic — Season 02, Episode 01

The Juicy History of Italics, Letterform Archive, and more!

We are extremely jazzed to be back in business — after a long, long h...

S1E20 - Variable Fonts, Design Challenges, Arabic&Mirco ✨ from 2018-06-25T04:00:15

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 20

Variable Fonts, Design Challenges, Arabic & Mirco ✨

Could not be more excited to have a special guest this week, Listen

S1E19 - Worldly History, Secret 7,&Font Purchasing Survey 🙌 from 2018-06-08T09:00:54

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 19

Worldly History, Secret 7, & Font Purchasing Survey 🙌

Some interesting topics this week — the fading typographic history of Berlin, som...

S1E18 - Overpass, Opentype, Buzzfeed&Cats 🙀 from 2018-06-01T09:00:43

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 18

Overpass, Opentype, Buzzfeed & Cats 🙀

Our last in-person WT for a while, we had fun with a small set of light links — an OSS font, a co...

S1E17 - Cereal, Fondue, Arby's, and Sheep? 🐑 from 2018-05-25T09:00:28

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 17

Cereal, Fondue, Arby's, and Sheep? 🐑

Back with another round, we've got some cool fonts to show, behind-the-scenes design decisions, a neat...

S1E16 - Mohave, Kermit, Geograph, Oh My 🙀 from 2018-05-11T09:00:21

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 16

Mohave, Kermit, Geograph, Oh My 🙀

After a short hiatus, we're back with a bunch of cool type finds, a couple great articles, and s...

S1E15 - Kurt Cobain, Korean Type&Super Seventies Serifs 🕺 from 2018-04-13T09:00:20

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 15

Kurt Cobain, Korean Type & Super Seventies Serifs 🕺

A slew of interesting and different links this week, from branding to a new font fr...

S1E14 - Netflix Sans, Source Han Serif, FontDrop&more! 🌮 from 2018-03-23T09:00

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 14

Netflix Sans, Source Han Serif, FontDrop & more! 🌮

A light but fun week, checking out Netflix's new custom face, an open-source Pan-CJK...

S1E13 - Sonic Type, Art Direction, Handbooks + Platforms 🙇🏻 from 2018-03-16T09:00:37

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 13

Sonic Type, Art Direction, Handbooks + Platforms 🙇🏻

What an overwhelmingly awesome set of things out in the world this week — from some be...

S1E12 - Why Open Source, Chinese Fonts, Pocket Typography Guide, and a bunch more 📓 from 2018-03-09T10:00:42

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 12

Why Open Source, Chinese Fonts, Pocket Typography Guide, and a bunch more 📓

Since having to skip last week's, we ran a little long this wee...

S1E11 - Type Design Tips, Antique Children's Books, and Github? 🤓 from 2018-02-23T10:00:20

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 11

Type Design Tips, Antique Children's Books, and Github? 🤓

Favorite part — Olivia and I both get to nerd out on our respective excited topic...

S1E10 - Archives, Curves, Parties&Emoji! 🌎 from 2018-02-16T10:00:58

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 10

Archives, Curves, Parties & Emoji! 🌎

An amazing set of exciting links this week, from a free type design mini-tutorial to an antique ar...

S1E9 - A Textbook on Spacing, Trikster Type, and Sketch/iOS from 2018-02-09T10:00:53

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 09

Free French Font Scene, Sketch/iOS, Trikster Type, and more!

One of the least alliterative titles we've probably ever had, but we get to cha...

S1E8 - Free Found Font, Futura, and the Future™ 🚀 from 2018-02-02T10:00:07

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 08

Free Found Font, Futura, and the Future™ 🚀

After a fun evening at TypeThursday NYC, we sat down to share what we found this week, including...

S1E7 - Writing, Graveyards&Sketch 👩🏻‍🎨 from 2018-01-26T10:00:52

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 07

Writing, Graveyards & Sketch 👩🏻‍🎨

Psyched this week to have a variety of seemingly innocuous links that are full of awesomeness under...

S1E6 - Adele, UX, and Overcoming Fear of the Internet 🤓 from 2018-01-19T10:00

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 06

Adele, UX, and Overcoming Fear of the Internet 🤓

After a long break, we're back in the new year, with far more great finds than we could po...

S1E5 - Oi! Tips, Oggs, and Blobs 🍧 from 2017-12-08T10:00:58

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 05

Oi! Tips, Oggs, and Blobs 🍧

Not much in League news this week, but a solid & great roundup of design tips, web design trends + history,...

S1E4 - Nerd Gifts, Yogurt, Design Prompts&More 😎 from 2017-12-01T10:00:02

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 04

Nerd Gifts, Yogurt, Design Prompts & More 😎

So much fun in this fourth installment — we're jazzed from launching so much earlier this w...

S1E3 - Weekly Typographic — New course preview, animated type specs, and learning from UI 📚 from 2017-11-24T09:00:27

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 03

New course preview, animated type specs, and learning from UI 📚

Our third episode brought to you remotely thanks to Thanksgiving vacation —...

S1E2 - Twitter Tweets, Virtual Type Museums, and Beautiful Bookstores 📚 from 2017-11-17T11:00:09

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 02

Twitter Tweets, Virtual Type Museums, and Beautiful Bookstores 📚

Excited to bring you our second episode — we start by talking in more deta...

S1E1 - Intros&Big Announcements + IBM, WhatTheFont,&Michael Beirut 👋 from 2017-11-09T13:00

The Weekly Typographic — Episode 01

Intros & Big Announcements + IBM, What The Font, & Michael Beirut 👋

Our very first episode ever, we start off with an exciting hand...