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 – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Wynn Netherland – Twitter, GitHub

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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