Episode description

How many glyphs is too many glyphs‽ Stylistic alternates, contextual ligatures, icons, dingbats, and borders, oh my! So much to design, so little time. But is adding to your glyph count always worth it? The guys explore the idea of the "imposition of choice", what it means to designers and buyers when you give people too many options with a font. Their discussions also take us back in time to the year 2000, a time that might be influencing your typography today. We survived Y2K then, we can survive it now…

Font releases highlighted in this episode:
Brisbane from Leinster Type
F37Britain from F37
Community Gothic from Frere-Jones Type

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