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
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Font releases highlighted in this episode:
FT Lambert from FrosType
Routine from Blaze Type
Kyoshi from Alanna Munro
Lardent and Dopple from Colophon Foundry
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