The Weekly Typographic

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 design, the inside scoop on how Arial and Times New Roman are good for the Earth, an amazing resource that compiles free design eBooks, and more! For our Nerd Alert segment, Olivia and Micah chat about Vignelli's controversial design principle of only using a few "good" typefaces and how that impacts design learning today.

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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. Yesterday we announced a new workshop, hosted by our excellent pal Daniel Nisbet + us, to teach beginner type design fundamentals. Starting with how to use the most affordable pro option out there, Glyphs Mini. To prep, we gave a fun overview of some of the concepts behind the production side of font-making!

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What a party this week — from grocery packaging to color fonts, with inspiration & type design thrown in. And a pretty fun intro to a very important type design concept in the podcast this week, too, so if you've been curious about making fonts & want a fun way to learn more about starting, it might be a good week for you!

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This week we're going into detail about what really is the difference between the terms legibility and readability and why it's important to distinguish the two as a designer. Plus, we've gathered some fantastic Internet finds. There's a one-of-a-kind article about the science of reading, an unbelievably detailed thesis covering the design of italic type, and we'll top it off with a list of recently released typefaces that will rock your socks off.

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Besides our fun roundup this week, including one of our favorite new type design books, a visually readable braille, and a fascinatingly in-depth article about the importance of open-source in a city's rebranding, we've got an extremely entertaining Nerd Alert to teach some of the nerdier types of classifications you might never have learned about.

This week we've got a handful of interesting stories to share. The highly discussed new BK branding, some fictional typography, a video from one of our favorite entertaining type nerds, and a bunch more! Not to mention our deep dive into the the beautiful art of Ex Libris designs.

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As the end of the year rolls around, we present our final ✨holiday edition✨ Weekly Typographic! Our "greatest hits" list this week is all about our favorite share-worthy font reads we found this year.

While we are in the season of giving, how about giving your friends some quality, nerdy, typographic fun! You can blow their minds with generative fonts, teach them a thing or two with Ohno Type School, and give them a beautiful site to stare at with Reagen Ray's Jazz Musician Lettering, and a bunch more.

If you love what we're doing, share this roundup with a fellow type nerd. ❤️

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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 ✨holiday edition✨ Weekly Typographics will feature "greatest hits" lists for different categories of links we shared this past year.

This week we're presenting our favorite free font finds from 2020. Nearly all of these were included in our member-exclusive content this year, so if you're loving what you're seeing here, you'll definitely want to check out the membership.

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