Pimp my Type

With so many options out there, font licensing can feel like a headache! But it’s critical to understand it before choosing a typeface. That’s why I’m thrilled to welcome Joyce Ketterer, CEO of Darden Studio and expert on font licensing, to help us untangle it all. We discuss Among answering listener questions, we discuss: The most common commercial font license models and how to choose the right...

Web accessibility is an afterthought or a technical thing for many designers. At least I saw it that way before I embarked on my accessibility journey. But It’s during the design process when crucial decisions are made – and these go a long way! So to give designers some practical tips, I invited web accessibility expert Mina Nabinger to join me in a fun talk. We discuss What you should pay attent...

Are the fonts you pick actually any good? And I don’t mean if they fit the topic or the aesthetics of your project. I mean the quality of the actual font. Is it well-made? To help us with that, I invited type designer Alanna Munro. You will learn: How Alanna combined a passion for gaming with type design. The problem with marketplaces The three most important things to check if it's a quality...

What makes an accessible typeface? And how can we improve typography in regard to web accessibility? To answer this and other questions, I invited type designer Eleni Beveratou, creative director at Dalton Maag. We discuss: 🔵 The difference between legibility and readability 🔵 What makes an accessible typeface? 🔵 If Arial and Comic Sans are really superior? 🔵 If we should use designated fonts...

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...

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 d...

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 i...

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 commo...

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 taugh...

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 interf...

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...