The Interrogang Podcast

Are all type rules meant to be broken‽ We take you back to our convo about the pros and cons of challenging the so-called "rules" of good type design in this Rewind episode. We reference the type used in the credits of some films and TV shows a few times in this episode: Loki, The Favourite, and Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell. Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Where is all the artistic feedback that we so crave‽ Tech Master Andrew sends us back to our discussion from Season 2 in which the guys wonder how we are supposed to develop as designers in this criticism-filled world we live in. Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Can you tell the difference between a font description and a description of a bottle of wine‽ Kyle was put to this ridiculous test with his type reputation on the line. Hear how well he fared in this Rewind episode. Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

What's next for type in 2024‽ We're all about FUN this episode (finally), and with a new year rapidly approaching, Josh and Kyle look back on what this past year has been like for independent type and make some hopeful predictions for the future. It also seems like as good a time as any to clear the air and start fresh, so Josh tells us why he doesn't need your ampersand and Kyle will allow a free font, if only to prove he's not crotchety. It was a huge year, the universe of indie type was ever-expanding, and we tried to cram it all into this one episode. Did we succeed? Nah, but we all need room to do better next year... Font releases highlighted in this episode: Asoma from James Plattner Burghi from CAST Hour from 205TF Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Who will help guide Santa's sleigh tonight‽ It's our annual Gift Guide review, and although Josh has had too much eggnog, Kyle the Red-Nosed Reindeer is here to help finish out your holiday shopping list. There are pencils that will encourage you to sketch more, apparel for your naked designer friends, tools for adding typography into your next woodworking project, and more than enough globby holiday spirit. And Josh responds to a fan letter with "Yes Virginia, There is a Perfect Font" to remind us of the true meaning of Christmas: loving the fonts you're with... Happy Holidays! Font releases highlighted in this episode: Synt from ABC Dinamo Esperanza from Labor & Wait Ease from Studio Feixen Calyx from Blaze Type From Santa's Type Toy Shop: Alphabet Keytags from Colophon "Fully Charged" Pencils from PSTL Jokker Cards from Displaay Type Letraset-Inspired Sticker Sheets from Toko Type "You Live and You Kern" Sweatshirt from Goodtype 'Footnotes' Socks from PSTL .NOTDEF Glyph I Love You from Bastarda Type Shift Happens by Marcin Wichary Letraset, the DIY Typography Revolution by Adrian Shaughnessy Mono is the New Black from Counter Print ABC Connector Plates & Fonts from ABC Dinamo Blockface Kit from Open Press Project Rails & Tiles from Shop at Matter Typography options for house numbers from Door No. Co. Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

How much typography can one person possibly consume‽ We intend to find out this week as we foodify some of our favorite releases from this year and fill our plates with typefaces, all in the name of being thankful for this year's font harvest. We've got entrees that will get you toned, starchy fonts that remind us of the power of potatoes, cool and refreshing display types, and sugar-coated fonts to round out your meal and your year. With such an incredible array, we enter the holiday season typographically satiated, overstuffed, and maybe encountering the slightest bit of Regrets... Font releases highlighted in this episode: Qommodore from Production Type Nicola from Commercial Type Minetto from Dalton Maag RST Thundra and RST Mazumbá from Reset Type Your 2023 Thanksgiving spread: Arbale from Typofonderie Terza from Commercial Type Octavia from Flavia Zimbardi & Tida Tep Fugit from Counter Forms Forager from Overlap Type Gamuth from Production Type Ozik Soft from Nuform Type Aligne from Leinster Type MD IO from Mass Driver Glazier from Positype Kablammo from Vectro Type Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Can an iconic brand also be a dynamic one‽ This episode starts with a good font with which to sell hugs, a new release that also serves as a marketing exercise, and two handwriting fonts, only one of which is born of hand writing. Then, Josh has to rant about how the ever-changing NBA jerseys are examples of poor branding, and even though Kyle may not exactly disagree, there's a chance the guys are simply behind the times. But at least they are partners in confusion, and we can all agree that good branding has a through line and Pepsi reeks of desperation... Font releases highlighted in this episode: Ozik Soft from Nuform Type Scatch from Tipographies Dash from Typotheque Superscript from Positype Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Did you know that font releases come in all sizes‽ Of course you did, you've been listening to this podcast for almost three years now. The releases keep getting bigger and bigger this week, and we start by pulling Gantry out of Ohno Type Co's dangerous Drawer, then we get old-timey with Ephemera Font's Osbert, followed by the jive-inducing Name Mono from ArrowType, and finishing with the behemoth that is Sharp Type's Sharp Grotesk Global. Now If we could only get Kyle to start paying attention to any of this, we might be on to something... Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

What are the best fonts for horrifying candy creations‽ This is our annual Halloween episode and Josh has the mad scientist credentials to meet the occasion. He and Art Director Ygor introduce you to the next generation of Halloween candy and the fonts they will use to sell them. The guys also discuss what haunts them in type, ancient incantations to rid us all of a particular typeface's curse, a font that is already filling its Piehole, and the reason Kyle is never stylin'. So grab a potato sack of Novaburst and give in to the insanity, your Trick or Treat bag might get a little heavy this year... Font releases highlighted in this episode: Viroqua from Mark Simonson Studio Done from Ohno Type Co. Arsen from Typofonderie Forager from Overlap Type Foundry Fitzroy from Cantrell Type Foundry Spell from Lift Type Fonts perfect for new and horrifying Halloween candy: Caraque from Dalton Maag Gordian Kapitalen from Typotheque Alterego from Bold Monday Forno Wild Waffle from Pizza Typefaces Megazoid from Font of the Month Club Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Have you ever considered the font needs of monsters‽ It's a monster mash (or rather, job fair) for this Rewind episode in which we design business cards for all your favorite Halloween ghosts and ghouls. And, unfortunately, for Fluffles... And here are the fonts we recommend for the employment-seeking monster in your life: Oroban from Blaze Type Ehrie by Blast Foundry on Future Fonts Ohno Casual Light from Ohno Type Co. This Man This Monster from Comic Book Fonts Neptun from la Bolde Vida Puffin Display Soft Black from Bold Monday Francesco from Production Type Dapifer Stencil Bold from Darden Studio Plakato Paper Pro Regular Italic from Underware Chee Pickles from Ohno Type Co. Comic Code by Toshi Omagari Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Why is this podcast so obsessed with the names of fonts‽ Because it's important, that's why! (And fun!) This time, Kyle challenges Josh to come up with his own name for fonts, both real and imagined, to explore the thought process behind how a font gets its name. Turns out, naming a font is quite a journey; in this episode alone we have Chonkboards, we get a little Smoishii, there are Spooky Actions, and even some Tragedy. Is Josh up to the challenge? Ah, what a Cloisterfuch... Font releases highlighted in this episode: Kit from Darden Studio Kukulkan from Sudtipos Anormal from Fred Fonts on Future Fonts Leopardo from 205TF VTC Tre from Vocal Type Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

How badly do we all need to expand our type vocabulary‽ This episode starts with Skeleton fonts, a typeface that brings the glom, creative pixelation, and the Goofus and Gallant of font releases, and then the guys rank the definitive* list of type words, phrases, and concepts that everyone should know. Josh just won't let you forget about Blackletter fonts and Kyle is all about those ligatures, but it turns out you probably won't impress people by being able to tell the difference between a dash and a hyphen. And then the 90s came around (heavy sigh)... *Absolutely not definitive Support the Words of Type Kickstarter here! Font releases highlighted in this episode: FT Lambert from FrosType Routine from Blaze Type Kyoshi from Alanna Munro Lardent and Dopple from Colophon Foundry Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to TypeCraft, our sister podcast, for hour long interviews and visual companions from some of the industry leaders in type! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Need more type podcasts in your life‽ We've got you covered! We're expanding our podcasting output with a new show: TypeCraft! TypeCraft is a podcast mini-series with interviews conducted by our very own Kyle Read, where we will hear from some of the biggest names in type. Give this episode a listen to hear who we've got lined up for Season One. Then stick around to solve the mystery of why you've only been listening to Josh for all these years... Subscribe to TypeCraft to get the full-length interviews and visual companions! Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

How much could an agent help freelance designers find work‽ Josh and Kyle put on a suit and tie this week and tackle some business topics. Could tying cost-of-living data to font prices be the way of the future? And what would a world with type design agents look like? Along the way, Josh wants to start a giant game of font naming telephone and Kyle is freelance Robocop. As if there is any question who the weird ones are... Font releases highlighted in this episode: Doumbar from Atipo Foundry Basilar from R-Typography Align from Commercial Type And check out the pricing model from Counter Forms here. Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

How did all these foundries keep so busy this summer‽ There's so much to cover in this episode: the concept of social kerning, new foundry Adotbelow's explorations of multiculturalism in type, CSTM's Backslanted defying the laws of typographic gravity, Arbale serving as Typofonderie's Avengers, the hints of Helvetica in Typotheque's Münchenstein, the orderly bounciness of Smilena from Melvas Type, and how Colophon's Parent inspired revolution out of Josh. And you'll never guess which one of these fonts we're going to use to sell our asbestos... Support the Interrogang, if you are able, and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Do you have any bad habits you need to break‽ Josh and Kyle are back in the habit of podcasting, so they wonder how much the traits you develop as you grow up might hold you back as a professional. You probably don't need to unlearn everything you know, because sometimes, your habits just make you who you are. Kyle can't finish what he starts and Josh's arm movements are barely human, but their neural pathways may not allow for much better... Ten points for Hufflepuff! Font releases highlighted in this episode: Kibitz from Colophon MD IO from Mass-Driver Aligne from Leinster Type Spades from Order Type Foundry Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show

Aren't we all a snob about something‽ Well, we tried our best not to be too obnoxious about it in this Rewind episode about having strong personal preferences around type. Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Support the show

How many stars does a sensible serif deserve anyway‽ We return to the pros and cons of a widespread font rating system in this week's Rewind. Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Support the show

Would you snap your fingers and make 50% of all fonts disappear‽ Will Josh or Kyle put on the gauntlet, or will they send in the Avengers to save the fonts? Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Support the show

What does it mean to pursue perfection in type design‽ It's summer so maybe we should just hit the pool, but we decided to tackle some big type topics first. There are designers out there working to make the perfect font right now, and maybe Jony Ive's LoveFrom Serif found it, but is it worth the time and energy? The guys think through nobility and ego and legacy and motivation and Dr. Seuss tubas and ultimately find it is akin to a quest for the Holy Grail of fonts: an epic journey that might just be foolish. But, as Kyle reminds us, the true Grail is the fonts you made along the way... Alright, we've hit enough tennis balls at you, go jump in the pool! Font releases highlighted in this episode: Coastal from Positype Brilliante from Black Foundry Twogether Sans from Sudtipos Click here for more information on TypeTogether's Primarium project! (NOTE: the project is growing all the time, the number of countries and typefaces involved have already grown from time of recording) Click here for the FastCompany article referenced in this episode. Support the Interrogang and help us expand what Proof&Co. and the Interrogang have to offer! Subscribe to the Weekly Newsletter or The Concierge Newsletter for all the independent type news that's fit to email! Get your 2022 Annual Report and Almanac, our data-driven look at the world of independent typography in 2022! Support the show