Kili, Originality, and Calendars 📅 A wild ride this week — from chatting about Clippy-esque rebrands, to conceptual UX and calendars, to the fine line between a font revival and copying someone's work. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

A little note from our founder ✨ We interrupt your regularly scheduled link-chat to talk a tiny bit about where The League came from — and ask an important question. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Recraft, Grid Levels, and Surveyor 🗺️ This week, in a bit of a rapid-fire episode, Thomas and Micah chat about a handful of cool tools, inspiration, and detailed type design articles that landed on our doorstep this week! Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Abstract, Berlow, and Color 🎨 This week, we dive into some fun articles on ASCII art & fonts, the grandfather of type's (David Berlow) catalog getting acquired by Monotype, and a bunch of fun chat about reto-futuristic design and color. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

StyleDrop, Tank-Man, & The Olympics 🏊🏻 Extremely excited to share this week's podcast episode with you — Micah & summer co-host Thomas Jockin talk about all the cool links we shared this week, plus a little something extra. Tune in! Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Origins, Upgrades, and Gushers 🍬 This week, Micah will be back, joined by our summer guest co-host, Thomas Jockin, to nerd out, talk type, and discuss all the links from this week. Weekly Typographic Newsletter Links

Our favorite free fonts and tools of 2022 🎶It’s the final countdown, do do do doooooo….🎶 For our final newsletter and podcast for the year we’re talking about our favorite free finds of the year, featuring resources, fonts, and tools. We each picked one or two things we liked (or something we wanted an excuse to talk about again) and collected them…

Our favorite share-worthy reads of 2022 Friends! We are fast approaching the end of the year, which means we get to start our traditional episodes of sharing some fam favorites from the year. This week we’re sharing some articles that we loved reading, thinking, and talking about this year and have been noodling on ever since we first saw them. We’…

2022 Retrospective There’s a bit of a theme to this week’s articles, with a bit of a ‘using type on the web’ flavor to our links and discussions. Which is good because we get to pick Micah’s brain on some of these subtleties and clever tips on using type well in web designs. As we move into the end of the year (how?!) we’re doing a few end-of-year-…

Adobe Fonts Deep Dive Hands up if you enjoyed our conversation with DJR last week. It’s proving a popular episode - thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed it. This week we’ve got some fresh new links to talk about, and a nerd alert that segues from last week’s interview. We’ve got some rather beautiful examples of 3D lettering created by a text …

An interview with David Jonathan Ross We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again; the conversations we have with people from around the type and design industry make our hearts very happy. And this week is another example of that as we got to talk to the one and only David Jonathan Ross, or DJR. He shares his insights on what’s happening in the ty…

Emerging Type Tech Tools Over the last couple of months, we’ve come across a few fancy new tools and tech for designers / type designers that have had us talking. So this week, we’ve packaged all of those up in a nice box and presented them to you as an audio (and newslettery) gift. There’s some thoughts on AI+type, a serious upgrade to an existing…

So you want to distribute a font? We’ve been talking and thinking a lot lately about the different routes for designers who design type, but aren’t necessarily wanting to be full-time type designers. Do you need to start a foundry? How do you get your type out there? Do you have to distribute via one of the big platforms like Google or Adobe? (Spoi…

Tattoo Lettering We’re back on our regular schedule after last week’s fun detour to collaborate with the Interrobang podcast (if you haven’t listened to that one, it’s a fun one, so make sure you scroll back a week in your podcast player to give it a listen). This week we tried to get into spooky season mode, but the closest we got was tattoos, whi…

Weekly Typographic x Interrogang Crossover Do not adjust your sets! We are coming to you this week with a very special (early) episode with our first crossover episode. And we couldn't be happier with this crossover as we're talking to the delightful and equally-as-nerdy-about-typography, Kyle and Josh from the Interrogang Podcast. cue applause We …

Packaging Design Storytime: From Dieline to Production Line Settle down children, and pull up a comfy seat - it’s story time. Join Olivia and Micah in the reading corner for this week’s nerd alert where Olivia is talking all about the world of packaging design. She shares her early experience of doing bespoke event packaging, and then moving into m…

Startup Design Trends We’re back to regular scheduling this week with Micah and Olivia chatting about all things type and design. And we're gonna be honest, this week’s links are a somewhat ragtag mix of design and type talking points. We chat about a recent Dinamo newsletter where they interviewed a Font Licensing Specialist, look at some handy in…

An Interview with Beatriz Lozano We’re having a chat with another designer this week, and we’re super excited that that designer is the wonderful Beatriz Lozano [insert cheers and whooping here]. We’ve been such fans of Beatriz’s work and approach for a long time, so we loved picking her brain on all things tech, design, education, plus a peek into…

3D Type Showcase: A Brave Neue World Every so often we like to take a longer look at a certain type/design style or part of the industry. We’ve been seeing a lot of interesting 3D design pop up recently, both in the real world and in the overlayed world of AR so we wanted to get a little bit deeper to take a peek at different applications of this f…

Trial Fonts and Tribulations This week Olivia is joined by Steph and they are having a big old chat about trial fonts; what we like about them, what annoys us about them, their possibilities, and some of the creative ways foundries are using them / thinking about them as part of their marketing plan. (If you’ve got strong thoughts on trial fonts - …

Maximizing Marketing: Taking Your Type to the People There’s a bit of everything in this week’s newsletter and chats; a super detailed behind the scenes on an iconic rebrand, some handy web design typesetting tips, a case study of alternative design education options (and the importance of practice), and a cool look into some left-handed calligraph…

An Interview with Libbie Bischoff, Founder of Type Du Nord We’re not going to lie, one of the things that gives us the most energy is talking to type designers / people working in the type and design industry. Our cups are overflowing this week after a delightful conversation with Libbie Bischoff. We spotted Libbie’s amazing 52 Fonts project early …

DALL-E 2: Are we all out of jobs? It’s so good to be back in recording mode, and this week we took it to the next level by recording IN THE SAME PLACE! Olivia took a lil road trip to see Micah and they recorded together. Cute. This week we’re talking about DALL-E; what it is, why it’s useful, why it’s not, the things people are worried about, and w…

It's Season 3, Baby! FRIENDS! WE'RE BACK! And not only are we back on the podcast, but we're 'back to school' as we have a new workshop happening later this month with the wonderful Aline Kaori. On the podcast Micah and Olivia are talking about what we've been enjoying this summer, what we're seeing around the type & design world, and some sneak pe…

Season 2 wrap It’s the end of season 2! There’s exactly zero rhyme or reason to when we call time on a season (see the fact season 1 was about three months, and season 2 has been over two years), but we’re taking a break for a few weeks over the summer and will be back with a refresh/glowup*. But, wipe those tears away our friends, we’ll still be d…

An interview with Juan Villanueva We’re just going to say it. We love Juan Villanueva. So we’re especially happy to have him joining us on the podcast this week for a chat about type design (of course), the changing landscape and opportunities in type design education, and his multitude of roles and contributions to the type community. There’s heap…

Web3: what we've learned so far We’ve been teasing this topic for MONTHS and we’ve finally pulled together all our learnings so far about web3/NFTs to make an episode. This will be part 1, as after our summer break we’re going to bring you an interview with an expert and/or creator in this field to dive deeper into it. So think of this week as your…

Episode 100! We did it!! We made it to episode 100! We’re taking a little trip down memory lane this week and sharing some of the origin stories that you might not know about your favorite(!) type and design news podcast. And you have to listen to hear a clip from the first ever Weekly Typographic episode that Micah and Olivia recorded IN A CAFE. W…

The realities of open source This week’s newsletter is pretty much one big ball of wholesome goodness. There’s a fun retro project, a super detailed article about variable fonts, a designer shaking up the Arabic type education space, and a wonderful short film about an icon of hand lettering / sign writing. In the nerd alert we’re getting into the …

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 delighted to chat with Chris Skillern, from Tulsey Type. You might recognise Chris’ name from the TypeW…

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, then make sure you wrap your ears around this week’s episode. All bases are covered in week’s ar…

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 that we’re into at the moment, and are talking about them on the podcast. We also asked our frien…

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 about a designer with a background in graffiti and who uses this skill in their typographic and de…

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 typographic beauty and attention in Wes Anderson’s latest film, and a very informative video lecture abo…

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 think of a better person to partner with for this topic than Oliver from Pimp My Type. It’s happen…

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. 👀 This week’s articles are a fun mix of goodies; a typeface saving us from the horrors of trying t…

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 existing clients / relationships into ongoing clients. Good stuff. We’ve got plenty of fun stuff in th…

How to start a revival project It’s almost time! Next week we’re talking custom type pitching at our next workshop with guest instructor Thomas Jockin. Thomas is joining us to share his lessons, structures, and processes for successful custom type design pitches, and we reckon that these lessons would be useful for other design disciplines too, not…

The business of custom type ICYMI we’ve got a super interesting new workshop happening right at the end of this month, all about the biz-niss side of custom type design. And we’ve asked our esteemed friend Thomas Jockin to join us to share his lessons, structures, and processes for successful custom type design pitches. Thomas is joining us on this…

Love type: fonts and romance New workshop alert!! We’re so excited to partner with our very clever friend Thomas Jockin and give you the chance to dig into his amazing business brain when it comes to selling custom type projects to clients. He’s pitched (and won) type projects with big names like Microsoft and Google, and has a decade of experience…

Books for the brain It’s book week here at the League and we’re getting nerdy talking about some of the best type design books around at the moment, particularly some more recent releases we’ve enjoyed. Steph’s joining us on the podcast to chat about books about making fonts (Dan Cederholm’s Twenty Bits I Learnt About Making Fonts, OH no Type Co’s …

An interview with Olivia King, design director and type designer It’s a double dose of OK this week as our own Olivia Kane is interviewing the Australian design director and type designer, Olivia King. We promise it’s a fun and insightful conversation, and not confusing with all the Olivias! We talk about broaching the subject of bespoke typefaces …

What's with all the death metal lettering?! Ok, strap yourselves in, we’re talking metal this week. Late last year Olivia noticed the curious ‘trend’ of metal-esq lettering being used in all sorts of places. This inspired her to go DEEP into type detective mode and got into the stylistic musical and aesthetic differences in the sub-genres of metal,…

Woo! 2022! We’re baaaaaack! New year, new podcasts, interviews, workshops, newsletter features, and of course, new type + design news. We’re super excited to be back on air with our first podcast of 2022, where we talk about a cool piece of work that Micah worked on with Google, a suuuuper inspirational project from Do-Hee Kim, a very exciting upda…

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 still can’t get enough of. We’ve got everything from workhorses to fancier scripts, and somethin…

Know Your Value: Three Pricing Traps Creatives Fall Into We’re back chattin’ type and design this week, and there’s a lot to cover! There’s another rebrand to add to the ever-growing fast-food rebrand list of 2021, Jony Ive has created something unexpected, WeTransfer have done a fascinating research piece on the state of creativity in 2021, and Mo…

An interview with Sarah Hyndman of Type Tasting It’s interview time this week as we fully nerd out with Sarah Hyndman. Sarah is the founder of Type Tasting and use typography to create unique experiences that transform what people think, feel and do. We loved our conversation about type trends, semiotics, the emotions of type, and why sometimes a g…

WTF is font mastering?! New workshop! We’re delighted that the ever-so-skilled lettering artist Alanna Flowers is joining us for our next workshop (20-21 Nov). Wittily titled Bettering Your Lettering, you'll learn type & lettering basics that will give your work a strong foundation. It's totally beginner friendly and you'll be able to create a comp…

Lettering versus type design skills Look, we couldn’t cover this week’s type and design news without mentioning the big one… the meta-verse. What does it mean for designers? How will the future of a virtual universe change And what about that new logo?? Away from that and back into the real world(!), we’re talking about a great behind the scenes in…

An interview with Nadine Chahine of I Love Typography Wow, what a weekend of learning with Dan Cederholm last week. Dan was so generous with his font design knowledge and we loved the snippets of wisdom he shared. We also loved seeing everyone's work produced across the two workshops and the blossoming enthusiasm for type design 💚 We go from one de…