I led a lettering workshop tonight and I’m just so impressed with these beautiful greeting cards everyone made with only a couple hours of practice! 🙌

A purple cooler sitting outside a kitchen.

Fridge is refusing to be cold (you had one job!) so now I get to pretend I’m camping inside my house. Fingers crossed that after defrosting the fridge for a day it will come back to life 👻🤞

Yep. I moved to Affinity years ago as well and have not felt the need to return to Adobe. I live in Designer & Publisher. I took the new Affinity for a spin though and it can't open InDesign files (Publisher can) plus a couple other glitches so I will be sticking with their V2 for a while.

Women-owned, Vancouver-based, variable-first. @arcanetype.com makes fonts with real warmth — Tofino, Stornoway, Amberwood. Indie foundries like this are the future.

https://thepunch.studio/foundry/arcane-type-foundry | https://www.arcanetype.com/

The cover of a graphic novel called Passing in the Night. In the centre of the image, a flying lizard lady - Gloria - hovers in the air, holding onto her partner, Ruth. In the background, the city skyline is lit gently by a rising moon. At the bottom are the names of author Meghan Kemp-Gee, artist Lane Lloyd, and letterer Megan Praz

We're hosting a pre-launch party for our newest book! If you're in Vancouver, come meet author Meghan Kemp-Gee at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social on February 10 at 6pm. Snacks, non-alc drinks, and an exclusive comic preview of the book. RSVP here: www.crossandcrows.com/events/44904...

Articles that more deeply make observations about the way we live our daily lives and offer more global perspectives used to come across my feeds all the time, but not so much now. Anyway, I feel like I’ve been thinking more these days and this newsletter has played a part in sparking that.

I had started to believe that because I had moved into a new season of my life with a more defined career and parenting commitments that I just didn’t have the time to reflect and think deeply about stuff. I am now realizing that it wasn’t about lack of time but instead a lack of inspiration.

So a while ago one of my fonts was featured in this newsletter so I checked it out. Long story short, it’s thoughtful observations like this that remind me of the old internet and take me back to a time where I had more real thoughts and conversations.

That’s so special! I have a toy chest made by my grandfather that has similar weight (and is now filled with my own kids stuffed animals). Making something that can last into the generations after yours feels good.

Typefaces may not physically weigh much (at least not since the days of metal type) but putting in the time and effort to shape them makes them feel heavy, substantial. The bigger the character set, the more robust the family of styles, the heavier it feels and the more satisfying it is to make.

Make Something Heavy We're creating more than ever, but it weighs nothing.

Ooof. Feeling this article hard. “Heavy projects are the lifeblood of creative fulfillment — and creative longevity.” www.workingtheorys.com/p/make-somet...

A screenshot from Animal Crossing New Horizons. The players character is standing in front of a hose and the surrounding ground and trees are covered in snow.

Happy day that snow gets added to a bunch of video games day!

5 minute dungeon! When we play with the kids we make it a bit easier by adding a few more minutes, or leaving out the timer entirely

Typotheque: Typotheque Club Typotheque type foundry, get unique, high quality fonts for print and screens directly from the designers. We also create custom (bespoke) fonts for most world's languages.

Join us on Monday 17 November at 8pm for a 60-minute online talk. Type designer Chris Skillern, a Cherokee Nation citizen, will discuss the Typotheque Cherokee project, which is the culmination of over two years of in-depth work and research. Join the club for free. www.typotheque.com/club

🥰 I’m so glad you are enjoying Avona Serif! Thanks for also mention the straightforward licensing and affordable pricing, I think we need more of that in the type industry! Your support means a lot!!!

Glyphs 3.4 released | Glyphs Glyphs 3.4 is out. This update brings macOS 26 ‘Tahoe’ compatibility, a new crash reporter, many additions to Font Info and improvements for variable fonts and smart components.

Great stuff happening in the latest @glyphsapp.com release! Also, I love how entertaining the release notes are 😂, so many little gems like "...And if you understood what this means, you are probably that guy who created and sent us that edge case in the first place." glyphsapp.com/news/glyphs-...

Type Brigade | Meetup We are a group of type designers, typographers, lettering artists, and general type enthusiasts. Join Type Brigade to talk about type, discover new technologies, share projects, and learn with some ve...

For my Vancouver followers, I’ll be speaking at Type Brigade No58 on Oct 16th! Also, if you are not in Vancouver, you’ll be able to catch the recording after! www.meetup.com/typebrigade/ Registration for this event is free! Come hang out and learn more about letters!

Also, how gorgeous are these shapes and color palette!? This game is pretty!!!!

I am so happy about this! As a type designer, sometimes while drawing a more obscure character like a dagger we really wonder if anyone will ever find it and use it. Seeing it exist like this means it was worth making ♥️

I feel like this chart applies to discourse about most things (not just limited to discussions around AI)—it’s a good reminder to think about how you are discussing things with folks around you.

Arcane Type: An Evolution of Alanna Munro Type Foundry Introducing Arcane Type Foundry! I’m a mixture of excited and terrified about changing the name of my foundry. I’ve been doing business under Alanna Munro Type Foundry for 5 years now and have discove...

Good new name for a good type foundry: @arcanetype.com www.arcanetype.com/articles/arc...

I'm using their Avona Serif, perhaps my favourite typeface, in my upcoming game. www.arcanetype.com/fonts/avona-...

New look! This name change is coinciding with the foundry’s 5th birthday and to celebrate, I thought I would confuse everyone about my identity (I joke, I joke). Moving forward, we will be called Arcane Type Foundry and we believe fonts are magic!

And for the A type folks, organized beads! 😬

Hahaha! Everyone loves Derpy so much, especially my kids 😅 and Totoro is a classic!

It most definitely is! I modified a cross stitch pattern I found ❤️

Been making a lot of melty beads (or fuse beads, perler beads, Hama beads). I am getting better at ironing them evenly 😅

Two o characters in a handwritten style with an underscore between them so they look a bit like an unimpressed face.

Sometimes you are just happily working on a typeface and it looks at you funny.

The mirror of a blue car is in the center of the frame. The mirror is broken but a hand-held mirror with “Quo” written on it is taped to the car mirror by the handle.

Points for creativity!

Sometimes other people make cool things and I wonder why I didn’t make a similar cool thing that I had an idea for but haven’t got around to it yet. Then I realize they are a team of 12 people and I am just me.

Wish I could do that “mirror image” spell and my copies could all work for me.

Fontstand font user survey.

We’re are launching an independent industry-wide survey for font users. We want to hear about your experiences: What works? What’s confusing or frustrating? What would you change? Your answers will help us decide how licensing works within the Fontstand Cooperative.

fontstand.com/survey