The Interrogang Podcast

What are the best fonts for horrifying candy creations‽ This is our annual Halloween episode and Josh has the mad scientist credentials to meet the occasion. He and Art Director Ygor introduce you to the next generation of Halloween candy and the fonts they will use to sell them. The guys also discuss what haunts them in type, ancient incantations to rid us all of a particular typeface's curse, a font that is already filling its Piehole, and the reason Kyle is never stylin'. So grab a potato sack of Novaburst and give in to the insanity, your Trick or Treat bag might get a little heavy this year...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Viroqua from Mark Simonson Studio
Done from Ohno Type Co.
Arsen from Typofonderie
Forager from Overlap Type Foundry
Fitzroy from Cantrell Type Foundry
Spell from Lift Type

Fonts perfect for new and horrifying Halloween candy:
Caraque from Dalton Maag
Gordian Kapitalen from Typotheque
Alterego from Bold Monday
Forno Wild Waffle from Pizza Typefaces
Megazoid from Font of the Month Club

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Have you ever considered the font needs of monsters‽ It's a monster mash (or rather, job fair) for this Rewind episode in which we design business cards for all your favorite Halloween ghosts and ghouls. And, unfortunately, for Fluffles...

And here are the fonts we recommend for the employment-seeking monster in your life:
Oroban from Blaze Type
Ehrie by Blast Foundry on Future Fonts
Ohno Casual Light from Ohno Type Co.
This Man This Monster from Comic Book Fonts
Neptun from la Bolde Vida
Puffin Display Soft Black from Bold Monday
Francesco from Production Type
Dapifer Stencil Bold from Darden Studio
Plakato Paper Pro Regular Italic from Underware
Chee Pickles from Ohno Type Co.
Comic Code by Toshi Omagari

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Why is this podcast so obsessed with the names of fonts‽ Because it's important, that's why! (And fun!) This time, Kyle challenges Josh to come up with his own name for fonts, both real and imagined, to explore the thought process behind how a font gets its name. Turns out, naming a font is quite a journey; in this episode alone we have Chonkboards, we get a little Smoishii, there are Spooky Actions, and even some Tragedy. Is Josh up to the challenge? Ah, what a Cloisterfuch...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Kit from Darden Studio
Kukulkan from Sudtipos
Anormal from Fred Fonts on Future Fonts
Leopardo from 205TF
VTC Tre from Vocal Type

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How badly do we all need to expand our type vocabulary‽ This episode starts with Skeleton fonts, a typeface that brings the glom, creative pixelation, and the Goofus and Gallant of font releases, and then the guys rank the definitive* list of type words, phrases, and concepts that everyone should know. Josh just won't let you forget about Blackletter fonts and Kyle is all about those ligatures, but it turns out you probably won't impress people by being able to tell the difference between a dash and a hyphen. And then the 90s came around (heavy sigh)...

*Absolutely not definitive

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Font releases highlighted in this episode:
FT Lambert from FrosType
Routine from Blaze Type
Kyoshi from Alanna Munro
Lardent and Dopple from Colophon Foundry

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Need more type podcasts in your life‽ We've got you covered! We're expanding our podcasting output with a new show: TypeCraft! TypeCraft is a podcast mini-series with interviews conducted by our very own Kyle Read, where we will hear from some of the biggest names in type. Give this episode a listen to hear who we've got lined up for Season One. Then stick around to solve the mystery of why you've only been listening to Josh for all these years...

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How much could an agent help freelance designers find work‽ Josh and Kyle put on a suit and tie this week and tackle some business topics. Could tying cost-of-living data to font prices be the way of the future? And what would a world with type design agents look like? Along the way, Josh wants to start a giant game of font naming telephone and Kyle is freelance Robocop. As if there is any question who the weird ones are...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Doumbar from Atipo Foundry
Basilar from R-Typography
Align from Commercial Type

And check out the pricing model from Counter Forms here.

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How did all these foundries keep so busy this summer‽ There's so much to cover in this episode: the concept of social kerning, new foundry Adotbelow's explorations of multiculturalism in type, CSTM's Backslanted defying the laws of typographic gravity, Arbale serving as Typofonderie's Avengers, the hints of Helvetica in Typotheque's Münchenstein, the orderly bounciness of Smilena from Melvas Type, and how Colophon's Parent inspired revolution out of Josh. And you'll never guess which one of these fonts we're going to use to sell our asbestos...

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Do you have any bad habits you need to break‽ Josh and Kyle are back in the habit of podcasting, so they wonder how much the traits you develop as you grow up might hold you back as a professional. You probably don't need to unlearn everything you know, because sometimes, your habits just make you who you are. Kyle can't finish what he starts and Josh's arm movements are barely human, but their neural pathways may not allow for much better...

Ten points for Hufflepuff!

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Kibitz from Colophon
MD IO from Mass-Driver
Aligne from Leinster Type
Spades from Order Type Foundry

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Aren't we all a snob about something‽ Well, we tried our best not to be too obnoxious about it in this Rewind episode about having strong personal preferences around type.

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How many stars does a sensible serif deserve anyway‽ We return to the pros and cons of a widespread font rating system in this week's Rewind.

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