The Weekly Typographic

This week we're chatting about an incredible round-up of type-related articles and resources. We share a gift guide for all the type enthusiasts in your life, shell out some Chris Do-approved pricing advice for freelancers, and talk about the nearly unknown Futura copycat called Spartan, that was largely influential in America's graphic design history.

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We have a special episode for you this week—an interview with the inimitable Karen Cheng! Karen has been teaching type design at the University of Washington in Seattle for over 20 years and in 2006 wrote the book 'Designing Type', which has since become a staple on type design bookshelves around the world. We chat about her process for writing and creating such a detailed and robust educational resource and her experience teaching type design to undergrad design students. You won't want to miss this one!

This week, we've got a couple of in-depth guides about the different kinds of typesetting rules for the most widely used Latin-based languages and a deep dive into the philosophy of copying in design.

We've also got a great article on the lettering behind famous jazz album covers and an awesome database of the dimensions of thousands of popular objects and spaces.

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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 origin story and what they're up to today. We also go over our favorite links from the week including a deep dive into the history of drop caps, some Adobe Max highlights, and advice for those thinking about entering the UI/UX industry Tune in!

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Besides chatting about a handful of fun, somber, and educational resources, we're diving into a few recommendations for books that have been super impactful in our own learning about type this week.

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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 right way to use fonts on mobile apps, a type anatomy cheatsheet, and how you could use your face to interact with text in the future.

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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 they've affected the designs you might be making today.

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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 episode to sharing our favorite presentations from the event. We're lucky that the talks are available online, so everything we discuss is available for viewing on YouTube. Hooray!

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Keeping with the theme of important licensing topics, we're diving this week into a handful of relatable, scary stories of font licensing gone wrong! We chat about some new font releases, Instagram & Comic Sans, and a bunch more in probably one of our most fun episodes yet.

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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 conference about all things typography. A bunch of well-known people in the type world are contributing and Daniel is a wonderful soul who helped get it off the ground from the beginning.

In our chat, we get a behind-the-scenes look at how this huge undertaking got started, what he's struggled with in his own experience in type and design, and strategies he's used to help him succeed.