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FontDiscovery 🖼️ 118: Introducing Typogram Community!

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FontDiscovery 🖼️ 118: Introducing Typogram Community!

Our new community!

Hua Shu
Apr 18, 2023
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Hey Everyone 👋

It's another week of working intensely on the launch🙈. This week, I am focused on getting outreach for our Product Hunt launch next Tuesday, April 25th, at 12 AM PDT.

If you have a Product Hunt account, we would appreciate your upvote and support next Tuesday! Here is our Product Hunt teaser launch page, and you can click "Notify me" to get notified when we launch on Product Hunt.

Get Notified about Our Grand Launch!

If your timezone works (Asia or Europe?) and you can support us for the first two hours of our launch by upvoting, that would be amazing! (I've been told these are the magical hours), but if not, that is ok too. I appreciate any support, upvote, or share any time that day!

Also, friends who reached out to help us get the word out about Typogram – thank you!!! It means so much to me - more than you could ever know💕.

Now, I have a surprise! ⭐ I have been working on this in secret. Introducing…

Typogram Community Server

If you enjoy our newsletter, and want to learn more about design, get feedback on projects you are working on, need landing page or logo design critique, or just chatting/co-working in general, feel free to join. It is completely free to join and will remain free, forever… so… make yourself comfortable🌻

Join Our Community Server!

Some channels I have created:

  • landing page critique: for landing/design critique

  • build in public: Share what you are working on

  • lounge: general life chats

  • help-n-feedback: on our newsletters, app, and more

  • design resources: design resource we publish, getting feedback from you on what resource you need

Check it out, and please let me know what you think! (if you have trouble getting in, let me know too, I’m still fairly new at discord)

This week, enjoy one of my favorite issues on the font Bitter, a great open sourced font perfect for reading on the web.


In This Issue…

  • Font of the Week: Bitter

  • Design idea: The Art of Asking Questions

  • Color Inspiration: Yellowstone National Park

img: sample of Bitter

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Font of the Week 

About Bitter

Bitter is a highly versatile slab serif designed for optimizing reading experiences online. Bitter is designed with practical principles in mind, and most design choices are made with considerations for digital environments rather than aesthetics. 

My favorite design feature about Bitter is the minimal contrast in stroke width. This makes Bitter look contemporary and modern to the eyes while contributing to its overstrength as a screen font for reading.

Font Details

  • 9 weights with respective italic versions 

  • Low stroke contrast

  • Great as display or reading font

Bitter has very little stroke contrast
weight and styles of bitter

How to use Bitter for logos?

Bolder versions are perfect for logos. It has a contemporary, objective tone that works for many different projects, especially in the likes of publishing and blogs.

How to use Bitter for marketing and branding?

The lighter styles of this font, like Thin, Extralight, and Light are especially pleasing to the eye. They are perfect for quotes or display-size copies and make the typography on your page look clean and easy on the eye. Because Bitter is optimized for the digital reading experience, the regular and bold versions work fantastically as reading fonts.

Bitter used as branding for a show about women in design. Source: FontsInUse

Design Idea of the Week

Art of Question 

Did you know that, as children, we can ask an average of 40,000 questions between the ages of 2 and 5? But as soon as we grow older, we stop asking those questions publicly. This week, check out this helpful guide on the art of asking questions.


Color Inspiration

Yellowstone National Park

This week, enjoy colors from Yellowstone, USA.

Bronze #C86D04 | Sherbert #FEAF52 | Teal #02A790 | Egyptian #045396
color inspiration

Typography Jargon Buster!

Font Style

Font style is a particular style of the font within a font family. For example, usually, there is the italic style within a font family - a group of letters with a degree of slant. Font style can come in normal, italic, and oblique. The Normal style is when the text is upright. The italic style is usually calligraphic, cursive-influenced, and slanted. The Oblique style is a slanted version of the Normal style. 

fontstyle

Want more typography jargon buster? Check out this post!


Creative Prompt 

Create something with Bitter.


Thank you

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

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