115: Font Futures: Indigenous Syllabic Type Revitalization with Kevin King
I love and admire the work produced by the folks at The Weekly Typographic podcast. Their weekly emails are one of the few emails I...
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Diana Varma
- Jun 15, 2022
- 3 min
114: Font Futures: Variable Font Technology with Charles Nix of Monotype
I was first introduced to the work of Charles Nix, Type Director at Monotype, years ago through a LinkedIn Learning course he created...
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Diana Varma
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
113: Font Futures: Emerging Typeface Designers Nate Evangelista & Sarah Zahavi
Welcome to the future… font futures: a three-part miniseries dedicated to what will continue to evolve as it relates to design,...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 21, 2022
- 4 min
100: Desert Island Typefaces with Mark Simonson
I started this podcast exactly 28 months ago with a gut feeling, a creative urge and a curiosity about all things podcasting in an...
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Diana Varma
- May 25, 2021
- 6 min
054: Extra Bold with Ellen Lupton
Today is a special day. It’s not every day that you have the chance to sit down and chat with one of your professional idols. “Ellen...
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Diana Varma
- Apr 10, 2021
- 3 min
044: Zapfino Arabic with Nadine Chahine: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Zapfino Arabic Release Date: 2014 Designer: Nadine Chahine Classification: Calligraphic Owned By: Linotype Claim to Fame: This...
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Diana Varma
- Apr 10, 2021
- 4 min
043: Freight: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Freight Release Date: 2005 Designers: Joshua Darden and GarageFont Design Classification: Humanist Owned By: Phil’s Fonts Inc....
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Diana Varma
- Apr 5, 2021
- 7 min
042: Gotham: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Gotham Release Date: 2000 Designers: Tobias Frere-Jones Classification: Geometric sans serif Owned By: Hoefler&Co. Claim to Fame:...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 25, 2021
- 3 min
041: We Meet Again, Comic Sans: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Comic Sans Release Date: 1994 Designers: Vincent Connare Classification: Sans serif script Owned By: Microsoft Corporation Claim to...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 24, 2021
- 3 min
040: Wingdings: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Wingdings Release Date: 1990 Designers: Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes Classification: Dingbats Owned By: Bigelow & Holmes,...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 10, 2021
- 6 min
039: Papyrus: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Papyrus Release Date: 1982 Designer: Chris Costello Classification: Fantasy Owned By: Letraset Claim to Fame: Used and abused in...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 9, 2021
- 5 min
038: ITC Zapf Chancery: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: ITC Zapf Chancery Release Date: 1979 Designer: Hermann Zapf Classification: Script Owned By: Linotype Claim to Fame: The first and...
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Diana Varma
- Mar 7, 2021
- 5 min
037: Helvetica: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Helvetica Release Date: 1957 Designer: Max Miedinger, Eduard Hoffmann Classification: Neo-Grotesque Sans Serif Owned By: Haas Type...
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Diana Varma
- Feb 25, 2021
- 4 min
036: Futura: An Incomplete History of Type
Name: Futura Release Date: 1927 Designer: Paul Renner Classification: Geometric Sans Serif Owned By: The Bauer Type Foundry Claim to...
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Diana Varma
- Feb 24, 2021
- 8 min
035: Blackletter: An Incomplete History of Type
From type tales to type fails, this is the first in a 10-part series of an incomplete history of type. By exploring the history of type...
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Diana Varma
- Dec 22, 2020
- 2 min
026: Introducing Two Emerging Typeface Designers
In today’s episode I have the honour and pleasure to introduce you to two creative, innovative and talented emerging designers who are...
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Diana Varma
- Dec 15, 2020
- 1 min
025: Talk Paper Quizzers - TT, S&S, DD, CC
Welcome to our third Talk Paper Quizzers episode where contestants answer trivia questions to compete for the completely fictional,...
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Diana Varma
- Nov 30, 2020
- 6 min
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...
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Diana Varma
- Nov 22, 2020
- 8 min
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...
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Diana Varma
- Nov 15, 2020
- 9 min
022: Epic Ampersand
The ampersand (you know, the ‘and’ symbol) might be my absolute favourite glyph. Ampersands are expressive, they’re classic, they’re...
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