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 who are doing their own thing with type design. This week we’re delighte

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 systems. If you want to be able to tell your pica from your bourgeois, t

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 foundries that you should put on your radar. We’ve each picked a foundry th

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 that fixes some of the pain of ragging your web type, and finding out abo

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, some intricate design changes of Google’s Canary icon, the typograph

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 inbox the MOST is how to get better at pairing type, and we couldn’t thi

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. Clue: it’s a topic that people request in our inbox all. the. time.

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 clients or your boss, but got into pricing, positioning, and turning existin

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 s

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