The League of Moveable Type (Changelog Interviews #74)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Micah Rich from The League of Moveable type to talk about open source typography.

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Featuring:

• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Micah Rich, from The League of Movable Type.


• Caroline Hadilaksono, co-founder of The League.


• League Gothic, one of Caroline’s popular faces is Wynn’s favorite.


• Several of League fonts are available on TypeKit.


• Dave Crossland, designer of Cantarell.


• Chunk was created by Meredith Mandel.


• The League fonts are forkable on GitHub.


• FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, and more.


• Glyphs is a professional font editor for Mac OS X.


• Wynn’s slide decks make use of League Gothic and Hand of Sean.


• Lettering.js gives you more control over kerning on the web.


• The Manifesto lays out the vision for The League.


• Haley Fiege contributed Sniglet.


• Barry Schwartz has contributed several fonts.


• Want to help Micah introduce typographers to git? Get in touch.


• Wynn asks about vertical rhythm, which Compass makes easier.


• Lettercase is a social font manager.


• Adam uses FontExplorer X but wishes it did more.


• Micah on Dribbble.


• Lettercase is powered by Sinatra, Warden, and Grape.


• Hoefler & Co. are Micah’s heroes in typography design.

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