What Makes a Quality Font? With Alanna Munro

Are the fonts you pick actually any good? And I don’t mean if they fit the topic or the aesthetics of your project. I mean the quality of the actual font. Is it well-made? To help us with that, I invited type designer Alanna Munro.

You will learn:

• How Alanna combined a passion for gaming with type design.
• The problem with marketplaces
• The three most important things to check if it's a quality letterform
• About optical illusions and type design
• What curve speed is
• The difference between a font and a typeface
• We assess five fonts, going from bad 😕 to horrible 😱

Alanna Munro is an independent type design and lettering artist from Vancouver, Canada. To me, her typefaces incorporate something playful while never losing their utilitarian purpose. She caught my attention with her type design livestreams on Twitch and recently with her Letter Nerd publication. In a little 16-page booklet, Alanna gives you a quick overview on how to design and spot if it's a quality letter.

📝 See the examples and show notes here:

https://pimpmytype.com/talk07/

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01:44 – Welcome, Alanna Munro
05:39 – Type design for video games
09:06 – What’s a good font?
18:10 – Three most important things to check
24:03 – Optical illusions in type design
29:30 – Bad font #1
36:03 – Bad font #2
40:57 – Bad font #3
43:55 – Bad font #4
46:06 – Bad font #5 (worst!)
47:42 – Difference between font and typeface
49:19 – Final tips
53:28 – Closing