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Font ❀️ Friday and Other Designery Things #14

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Thank you for having me in your inbox. We’re on issue 14 now – wow! Thanks for sticking with me. Or if you’re new, welcome!

Do you know how many newsletters there are in the world?

I don’t either! I tried to research it, and I found out the most subscribed-to is The New York Times. Their morning newsletter has 17 million subscribers! Wonder if it has Wordle in it? Of course, lots out there are sponsored, some contain affiliate links, some are even paid for.

Since I started this newsletter fun things have happened to my little Lyons Creative world. I’ve been asked to appear on podcasts, present webinars… has it made me rich? No (not YET, ahem…) but you never know who’s looking or who your newsletter will get passed on to.

Plus, I love doing this and sharing my font finds, and yours. Speaking of which, throughout this edition I’ll share the finds from people who’ve replied to me. So, keep β€˜em coming!

Speaking of speaking… clients ask for β€œpull quotes” to highlight testimonials and particularly juicy bits of interviews. I know it might sound random (I’m not a saddo, I promise) but I have a favourite font for creating speech marks. It’s Abril Display Black.

There are many weights to this font. I choose Display Black because it’s chunky and has the elegant curves that cut in abruptly – love it!

It was designed by JosΓ© Scaglione & Veronika Burian and released in 2011. Looks older though, doesn’t it? A classic. Typewolf say: Abril is a Modern serif typeface. Although the display weights may fall into the Modern category, the text weights were more inspired by nineteenth century slab serifs and Scotch Romans.

See? Classic. The quote marks look especially great with colour. What do you think? You can download from various libraries or if you have Adobe Creative Cloud you can try it here.

FONTS

Sale of the Century (Gothic?)
Well, no Century Gothic in sight at the I Love Typography sale. There are over 10,000 fonts at 50% off though, check it out! The half-price sale finishes today (if you’re reading this on Friday). One that caught my eye was this Rig Shaded by Jamie Clarke. I really love the style. It reminds me of street lettering artist Rachel Joy Price. Imagine having it in your own design bank, to play around with.

Talking about Jamie Clarke…
Lettering artist and type designer Jamie wrote a blog post on Fonts for Cookbooks. We all know we judge cookbooks by their covers. The artwork and the fonts inspire us to pick it up from the shelf and possible cook something. Well, not me… I buy them for the designs… one day I’ll surprise the family with dinner or be a guest on Come Dine With Me. Do check the bakers dozen he’s picked – absolutely delicious!

Suggested by FLF peeps
The following fonts and finds have been suggested by Font Love Friday readers:
This san serif Figtree font suggested by Andi is friendly and FREE! I love the descriptions on this page.
And Jill has been searching through these lovely Flower Fonts

DESIGNERY THINGS

Swap Lorem Ipsum for a Jeff or cake.
Replace your boring Lorem Ipsum placeholder text with fun stuff. Someone out there created Jeffsum. The text generator is based on sayings from the actor Jeff Goldblum. It’s hilarious (well if you like that kinda comedy)! Thanks to Amy for sharing this.random text generator with us.
And there’s also a Cake Ipsum generator. But don’t forget to replace the words. You don’t want this cakey goodness going to press… or do you?

House of Cards
In a world full of tech and e-greeting cards, time for a step away from the screen. This is a beautiful book about the greeting card industry, which highlights a few card makers. House of Cards was created by Sarah Hamilton and is full of tips and beautifully designed cards with a range of typography. It’ll make you want to either go and buy more cards from independents, or try making some yourself.

Thanks, Nicola, for suggesting.

I’ve set up shop
My Font Love Friday store is LIVE! You’ve got your Font Love Friday mugs, your tees and totes, and also a freelance cat coworking t-shirt. I’ve already been asked to create a coworking dog tee – don’t worry dog lovers, you won’t be left out!

Take a look and of course, let me know what you think.

Credit – Sarah Hamilton

FREELANCING

Starting out in the world of freelance
I love to help people, especially students who are starting out and want to go freelance. I was recently asked on a call, β€œhow do I get started as a freelancer?”. Everyone’s journey is different, but I gave her a few resources including the website Creative Boom. There’s a great post from them which lists practical and affordable tools to keep the costs down when you first go into freelancing. Every penny counts!

On the Lyons Creative bookshelf
As freelancers, we wear many hats. One of them is shiny and marketing shaped. I only started marketing on social media about two years ago. Up to then I got most of my work via referrals or repeat work. But recently since creating content and doing my own marketing, my website and content has brought in new clients. I read, digest, and dip in and out of this book - Content DNA by LinkedIn trainer John Esperian, whose tagline is β€œRelentlessly Helpful”… and he is. So much so, he’s actually registered Relentlessly Helpful as his own…but I’m sure he’ll forgive me for using the words!

Coworking cheerleaders
Come join me and other freelancers as we get our work done during the FREE Freelancer Magazine Online Coworking session. Well, as long as there are no distractions, deliveries, cats jumping on your desk, Hello Fresh salespeople or doom scrolling social media *ahem*.
We work for two hours which is split into two lots of 45 mins of focused work, with breakout rooms in the middle. The breaks remind me of the good ol’ days of the water cooler moments. You get to have a chat with fellow freelancers and it’s a great way to tackle those annoying little jobs you keep putting off.

During October I’m hosting on the 3rd, 11th and 26th. Times are 9.30 -11.30 am GMT, come join us!

#FONTLOVEFRIDAY

Well, what a September! I’ve been busy getting back into the swing of things after the Summer. I went to a few events where I caught up with friends and met new people. I attended the launch of issue 5 of Tonic magazine,  Digital Women Live, SMMMeetUP which is networking for social media and marketing peeps.

People say β€˜I see you were out again Ange’ but it is work…well, kind of! I love chatting to people. I also had the pleasure of talking to email marketing expert Minal Patel about fonts on a LinkedIn Live. You can have a listen here as she repurposed it into a YouTube vid. We all know we should repurpose and reuse our content, Minal actually does it.
In the talk, I mentioned font licensing and to always double check what your fonts can and can’t be used for. I spotted this on hols in Turkey. I’m pretty sure Netflix wouldn’t be too happy!

On that note, cheers and HAPPY FRIDAY!

Do pop me a message, especially if you see some cool fonts out in the wild.

Have a great Friday and month ahead.

Ange 🌈

Thanks for reading!

I specialise in both print and digital graphic design. If you are interested in learning more about me and my services, take a look here.

*designery – I have made up this word.

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