FontDiscovery 🖼️ 78: Dial Down or Turn it UP with this Font. Your Choice.

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Welcome to Typogram’s FontDiscovery newsletter, written by your resident font and design nerd, Hua, and edited by Wenting. If you enjoyed this post, you can get our fonts and design tips weekly by subscribing below! See our archive for past posts.

Hi Everyone 👋

I hope you had a lovely long weekend!

For most of last week, I worked on a variable icon project for my startup Typogram. Previously, we created Anicons, animated color and variable icons for Google Fonts, and this project uses the same technology. It was a nice break to think on a slightly different part of my brain. 

Working on this has also reminded me how vital good documentations are. For this complex project, I have to do a lot of digging into forums and tutorials. Luckily, the software I’m using (Glyphs) has the most extensive, comprehensible tutorials in a straightforward manner. I’m deeply appreciative of how much time and care the makers put into writing these - I strive to be like them someday.

So, the short TLDR version is - if you are a maker, learn how to write good tutorials and documentation - it’s how people (your users/customers) will learn (to use/love your product)!