#18 (S2) FONTS, TYPOGRAPHY AND EMOJIs with the Font Guy, Patrick Griffin

Fonts are on our screens, on paper, on the products we buy, and on signs everywhere! When used effectively, fonts can significantly improve our communication. Patrick Griffin (“the font guy”) shares his advice about choosing the ideal font, considering the white space, and emojis!   References & Links Patrick Griffin * Canada Type – https://canadatype.com * Font references – * https://typedrawers.com * https://slashdot.org Fonts Referenced in this Podcast On Fonts * The Unicode Consortium – https://unicode.org * Emoji proposals – http://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html * Fonts Researcher Frédéric Gosselin – https://recherche.umontreal.ca/english/our-researchers/professors-directory/researcher/is/in14360/ * History of Helvetica (Wired magazine) – https://www.wired.com/2015/04/legendary-redesign-helvetica-reborn-30-years/ * History of Fonts (FastCompany magazine) –https://www.fastcompany.com/90322896/who-was-garamond-anyway-the-people-behind-typographys-famous-names * Fonts vs. typefaces FastCompany magazine) – https://www.fastcompany.com/3028971/whats-the-difference-between-a-font-and-a-typeface Talk About Talk * Fonts BLOG – https://talkabouttalk.com/talk-about-fonts-and-emojis * COLOUR Podcast – https://talkabouttalk.com/10-communicating-with-colour-with-daryl-aitken-jenn-purkis-lori-ryerson/ * Weekly Email Blog – https://talkabouttalk.com/blog/#newsletter-signup * Andrea – [email protected]   Interview Transcript Dr. Andrea Wojnicki: He has a business card, I’m really curious to see what fonts are on the business card. It’s very clean looking. Thank you so much, Patrick for being here. Patrick Griffin: Pleasure. AW: So let’s start if you don’t mind by talking about the font industry Patrick Griffin: Okay, let’s start with what I do. I make fonts on demand; I made fonts for retail and make fonts. I just make fonts. I’d be considered a font designer. And I’ve been doing this for about 19 years now. AW: How many fonts do you think you’ve designed or developed? PG: I stopped counting years ago. It’s quite a few. AW:  So who are you designing or developing these font families for? PG: I do fonts for banks, I do fonts for publishers,