Hey Everyone 👋

Hope you had a wonderful weekend! ☀️ What are you working on this week?

This week, I’m busy working on collecting user feedback for Typogram. What I have been doing is gathering feedback, trying to understand what our users need, and compiling them into bugs and features.

This work took more time than I thought, and I’m very behind on my writing than expected. However, one thing I’m especially proud of is getting a new blog post – the latest Typography Jargon Buster, published on Typogram’s blog! You can check it out here.

This week, enjoy our post from the archive on a highly versatile font, Alegreya.

In This Issue…

How to Use Alegreya for Logo, Branding & More

• Font of the Week: Alegreya

• Design idea of the Week: Best and Worst Headshots

• Color Inspiration of the Week: July Fireworks

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Font of the Week

About Alegreya

In our newsletter, we featured several “super family” fonts, like IBM Plex, and Cormorant.

Alegreya is one of these large typefaces with several styles for you to use for different projects. I like superfamily fonts a lot because it makes it easy to decide how to pair fonts. Especially when it’s a complex project with a lot of text, if the font family has both the serif and sans serif versions - they can pair with each other.

Alegreya is a super font family with several styles. My favorite is the Alegreya Serif, a classic-looking old-style serif with a friendly vibe, perfect for books or blogs. It also has an eye-catching italic with letterforms that looks distinct and complementary to the regular version, which is excellent for emphasizing text. Compared to Cormorant, Alegreya Serif has less overall stroke contrast and is more screen-friendly.

Font Details

• Minimal stroke contrast

• Sans serif version available to pair with Alegreya Serif

• Beautiful true italic

• Small caps version perfect for subheads

How to use Alegreya serif for logo?

Alegreya is perfect for publishing and editorial projects like blogs, newsletters, books, and publishing. The medium and bold weights are perfect for logos.

How to use Alegreya serif for Branding and Marketing?

Alegreya has serif and sans versions perfect for pairing with each other for marketing graphics, website copies, and presentations. It has enough weights and style to carry a complex typography system by itself.

Design Idea of the Week

Best and Worst Headshots

This week, enjoy this humorous article about fortune 500 CEOs with the best and worst headshots.

Color Inspiration of the Week

July Fireworks

This week, enjoy this summer fireworks color palette.

Navy #01165B | Butter #FFCE84 | Cherry #CD3050 | Mint #B9DAD1

Creative Prompt

Create something with Alegreya.

Thank you

…for reading and hanging out here this week! Alegreya is available here.