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032: Digital Publishing's Past
Like Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, whose past, present and future spirits arrive on Christmas Eve to show him a...

Diana Varma
Feb 13, 202115 min read
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024: Saving the World, One Typeface at a Time
Some typefaces are designed to be legible, others to be beautiful, others to be odd, eccentric and quirky. But some typefaces are...

Diana Varma
Nov 29, 20206 min read
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023: Typecast
From The Great Gatsby, to Monsters, Inc., to The Godfather, typography has a significant role to play in film. From typefaces on movie...

Diana Varma
Nov 22, 20208 min read
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022: Epic Ampersand
The ampersand (you know, the ‘and’ symbol) might be my absolute favourite glyph. Ampersands are expressive, they’re classic, they’re...

Diana Varma
Nov 15, 20209 min read
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019: Toronto Typography: Sports Edition
We’ve got the Leafs, we’ve got the Jays, we’ve got the Toronto FC, and we’ve got the Raptors. Today we’re talking Toronto sports... with...

Diana Varma
Nov 7, 202015 min read
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017: Hashtag Octothorpe
The octothorpe. Sometimes it’s referred to as a number sign, sometimes the pound sign and sometimes the hash sign (popular in Britain as...

Diana Varma
Oct 22, 20208 min read
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016: Hyphenate It
Hyphens. (So this is what Talk Paper Scissors has come to…) A teeny tiny straight line. The simplest typographic mark there is. Nothing...

Diana Varma
Oct 19, 202011 min read
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013: Extreme Type
Today’s episode is one that looks at extremes. Huge type, tiny type and everything in between live here. But before we get to the fun...

Diana Varma
Oct 2, 20205 min read
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005: The Evolution of Branding
Branding has evolved significantly since the first-ever brand registered in the United States almost 150 years ago (Bass & Co. Beer)....

Diana Varma
Feb 5, 20206 min read
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004: Gutenberg
It was a warm spring day in the town of Mainz, Germany where rays of sun danced around the clouds that cast shadows on the ground. There...

Diana Varma
Dec 5, 20196 min read
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