The Interrogang Podcast

Isn't it just better to talk about type in-person‽ The guys are excited to be recording from the same room for the first time, and they take that energy to talk about the joys of discussing and taking in type when we are together and not always engaging with each other over a screen. Kyle gesticulates with typographic enthusiasm and Josh admits to asking dumb questions.  But if Josh can learn this much about type, then there should be hope for us all...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Gnar from Kel Troughton
The Fragment Collection from Pangram Pangram
Prizma from Superior Type
The Future Collection from Klim Type Foundry

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Be honest: how do you really feel about Helvetica and Arial‽ If your answer is a hot take, then this episode is for you! It's Typographic Hot Takes Round 2! Kyle poses some of the most controversial opinions in the type world today to see how Josh feels about them. We learn that we shouldn't have passed kindergarten, Josh is a robot, and we all make mistakes in our twenties. We are pro-Blackletter and anti-Geometric Sans, however hot those takes may or may not be...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Romie from Margot Lévêque 
Grollera from Tipographies
Interchange from Mota Italic

Headline fonts Josh could do without:
Instagram Sans

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Can you tell the difference between the description of a font and the description of a bottle of wine‽ Josh puts Kyle to the test in a game of "Font or Fine Wine" and may have accidentally ended Kyle's type career. The guys also discuss how having strict parameters can help or hinder your work flow and how ligatures can give creepy backrubs. But what are ligatures if not images of ourselves, and what are we if not images of God...?

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Dwight from Lift Type
NaN Holo from NaN
Marist from ABC Dinamo
Dudler from Blaze Type

New foundries highlighted in this episode:
Tipofili

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Do you feel relevant when it comes to the fonts you create‽ We all strive to see ourselves in our work, but we want other people to like it too, of course! Kyle ponders what the point of it all is, but Josh is too worried about his elderly eyesight. What is more important, who designs the fonts or who the fonts are designed for? It may be an unanswerable question, just like, "did Kyle really catch that foul ball?"...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Ghost from Sharp Type
Apris from Schick-Toikka
Tiller from Fort Foundry
Kyrios from Arrow Type
Taklobo from Blaze Type
Lithops from Velvetyne Type Foundry

Fonts that help you read faster than those whippersnappers who need to get off your lawn:
EB Garamond
Montserrat
Poynter Gothic

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What is the Interrogang without Kyle‽ Well, we'd rather not find out. Kyle is away this week, so Josh curates some deleted scenes from this season to tide us all over until Kyle returns. There are metaphors aplenty, what could possibly go wrong? The metaphors may get away from us sometimes, but we can't stop, won't stop making them... 

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Where is that artistic feedback that we all so crave‽ It's time to go back to school, but don't worry, this week's episode is an easy A. Josh enrolls us all in Earth University and tries to find you the perfect minor to complement your graphic design major. Then the guys talk about all the feedback we used to receive about our design work, but can't seem to find much of these days. It was all so much easier in school, but there is hope for a brighter, more constructive criticism-filled future. If only Kyle would just stop bringing up Twitter...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
GT Planar from Grilli Type
Crow from Cinketype
Picholine Antique from Manic Type Foundry

College mascots of our two hosts:
Bees
Eagles

An Eagle would win in a fight, just sayin'...

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Do you ever feel like you don't get enough credit for your type work‽ Josh and Kyle would like to give you the credit you deserve, seeing as attribution in the type world seems, well, to not really be a thing. Kyle seeks world peace through type and Josh thinks some recent fonts have let themselves go. But really, where is the zazz...?

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Hex Franklin from Hex Foundry
Mori from Pangram Pangram
Sligoil from Velvetyne Type Foundry

Ways that fonts in 2022 were described:
Polarized
Squishy

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Have you ever been worried about sacrificing your artistic principles for a job‽ Josh and Kyle tackle the idea of "selling out" in type and realize that it may simultaneously be inevitable and not really a problem in type. But first, Josh jumps to the defense of the type consumer and keeps the dream of superfamilies alive while Kyle yearns for a day when variable fonts are more universally accessible. This episode is dedicated to (but not sponsored by) all those hard-working independent type foundries out there...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Proxima Sera from Mark Simonson
Exposure from 205TF

Foundries that discussed our topic better than us this week:
Dinamo with their Type Foundry Survey

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Where can you turn when you don't know when to use a certain font‽ Let's Google it! Kyle runs through a bunch of new releases and turns to Josh (because there was no one else around) to help us all define what makes a font superfamily "super". Then the guys return to everyone's favorite search engine for font usage advice and find, shall we say, inconclusive results. At least Google was kind to Comic Sans...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Fig Grotesk from Typeji
Mausoleum from Undercase Type Foundry
Sans Plomb from Lift Type
Feature Collection from Commercial Type
Nice from Fontwerk

Fonts that Google says you should never EVER use:
Papyrus

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Don't you think that with great fonts comes great responsibility‽ In the releases this week, we are transported to a California drum circle, take a look at something just slightly fancier than what you've seen before, and find a font that is a quirky neutral sans. Then, Josh wants to know how many fonts is too many fonts to use in a single design, and Kyle has some examples of "the power of type", how typography is used for social good in the world. And we're still waiting to hear your marketing plans for Wrong Sans...

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Venice Blvd from Hoodzpah
Right Sans from Pangram Pangram
Fold Grotesque from Colophon

Examples of the Power of Type for good:
Vocal Type
Buy Fonts Save Lives
Pangea Superfamily
The Syllabics Project

♫Don't take money, don't take fame,
Don't take no credit card to join THIS gang!
That's the Power of Type!♫

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