What Makes a Quality Font? With Alanna Munro

Links and summary: http://pimpmytype.com/talk07

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,@arcanetypefoundry.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
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