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Hi Everyone 👋

I hope you had a nice weekend. This week was difficult to focus on work with the current situations in Ukraine. It was heartbreaking to see footage of destructions, families separations, and casualties. In our newsletter today I am sharing resources I found on how to support Ukraine. If you know any other resources, please feel to share them in the comments.

In This Issue…

• Font of the Week: Farro

• Design Idea of the Week: Support Ukraine 🇺🇦

• Color Inspiration of the Week: Wild Lavender

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Font of the Week 

About Farro

Farro is humanist sans serif mixing calligraphy and modern influences. Its strokes slightly flare out at the end, almost like bellbottom jeans. This characteristic makes the font tone more conversational, casual and welcoming to the eye. It's common to see fonts like Farro used as marketing and signage for events and local businesses.

The letter details in Farro confirm this relaxed tone. Though Farro is Humanist Sans Serif, it has a modern-looking, single-story g to showcase its business-casual attitude.

Font Detail

• Shallow, single-story “g”

• The letter strokes are thicker, giving Farro a bold appearance

• Four weights in regular 

Specific Usage Tips 

How to use Farro for logo?

Farro is excellent for logos that want to appear formal but with a hint of casualness. It is perfect for projects in traditional topics or spaces, like investing or publishing, with a modern twist or unique angle.

How to use Farro for marketing and branding?

Though Farro has relatively good readability, it works better as a display font because of its visual quirks. Try using Farro at large sizes for call-out copies on your projects.

Design Idea of the Week

Support Ukraine 🇺🇦

This week we share helpful resources to support Ukraine. As always, please double-check and be mindful of misinformation.

Help Ukraine Win
A collection of resources and info on how foreigners can help

Help Ukraine
Another detailed resource for how those outside Ukraine can help

We Stand With Ukraine
A simple website badge to show support for Ukraine

Color Inspiration

Wild Lavender

Soft Blue #C99697|Pidgeon #D0D5D9|Moss #809B7A|Lavender #ADA1B9

Jargon Buster

Descender

The part of a lowercase letter that goes below the baseline.

Want more? check out the jargon buster glossary page.

Creative Prompt 

Create something with Farro! 

Thank you

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