Typography  for print can be intimidating to many designers, especially when you  focus on digital mostly. This is why I invited specialist Diana Varma to  share her knowledge of what to pay attention to when dealing with type  for print.  You will learn: 🤩 The advantages of print over digital. 🤩 The differences between readability and legibility. 🤯 The right font sizes & smallest type size you can print (blew my mind). 🤩 How to avoid beginners mistakes in prepress. 🤩 How to best print...

In the second part of the two part conversation with Nadine Chahine, type designer and CEO of I Love Typography, we dig into the world of distributing typefaces. I asked Nadine, what motivated her in this highly competitive market to start a marketplace for fonts? We dig into: 🤔 How the landscape for licensing typefaces was 15 years ago, and how it is today, 🤔 Explain the imbalance in the type design industry with a monopoly on one side, and 🤔 What I Love Typography does differently. 💌...

In this first of the two part conversation with Nadine Chahine, type designer and CEO of I Love Typography, we dig into Arabic type design, typography and type design in general.  Browse Fonts on I Love Typography 💌 Newsletter with weekly font recommendations Talking Points: 02:15 Greeting to Nadine Chahine 03:32 How Nadine discovered typography 06:43 The horrible state of Arabic typefaces in the 90ies 09:04 Why Arabic typography was neglected for so long 11:57 A typeface is a series of...

Designer, tinkerer and typographer Jason Pamental joins me to chat about what creative possibilities variable fonts bring. We also dive into web font performance, how to improve loading speed with practical tips, and why this all will become obsolete in the nearer future. From this easy going conversation, you’ll learn: ➡️ What’s different with typography for screen design. ➡️ About the most common typographic challenges on the web. ➡️ What effect bad web typography has on people. ➡️...

I am joined by the lovely author and typography professor Indra Kupferschmid to chat about type classification and combining typefaces. We cover why the old systems don’t work, and touch on a font matrix. It’s a brilliant way by Indra, that tells you how to describe typefaces differently, and helps in making better decision in pairing them. Besides that, Indra also shares: ➡️ how calligraphy taught her why letter forms change when using different writing tools. ➡️ that her student’s don’t...

I’m joined by wonderful José Scaglione. He is a type designer, lecturer, and co-founder of the high renown foundry TypeTogether, which is behind popular typefaces like Bree or Adelle. They worked with top brands, like Apple and Google, where they also contributed serif typefaces for screen rendering. And this is why I invited José – to discuss with him the predominance of sans-serif in user interfaces and screen design more broadly. We speak about, why it might be a legacy issue, and that...

Hello and welcome Typography enthusiast to Pimp my Type as a podcast! Let me take a short moment to introduce myself and this podcast here.  My name is Oliver Schöndorfer, UI designer and typographer and there to help you to boost your designs with great typography. I share what I have learned in 15 years hands-on experience on my blog, weekly newsletter, and YouTube Channel. Since typography is a very visual medium, why doing a podcast at all? Well, after 18 months doing the YouTube...