Hey Micah —

A very handy shareable Figma community file kicks off this week's articles and we check out the really cool artistry and design for the ‘Rise. Show Up. Unite!’ campaign.

Also, check out the latest fonts to be retired from the Adobe Creative Cloud and the almost comical T&C’s for the new Goldman Sachs typeface. Hint...you can use it, but not if you are going to criticize them in any way!

If you haven't been keeping up with all of the latest type news, TypeWknd is coming up, and is a massive, global and diverse online conference about all things typography.

This week, we've got an awesome interview with their co-founder Daniel Nisbet. You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at how this huge undertaking got started, what he's struggled with in his own experience in type and design, and strategies he's used to help him succeed.

This week's 5 awesome fonts and 7 designer-friendly gigs/jobs are just for members, but if you want in on next week's member-exclusive goodies, join the membership now and you'll get everything next week. 🙌

Extremely excited to share this week's podcast episode with you — Olivia & Micah talk about all the cool links we shared this week, plus a little something extra. Tune in!

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We received a great email this week from visual/UI designer Maxime Rabot — he has put together a free shareable Figma community file for all the League fonts, so you can duplicate it and add our fonts into your project on Figma quickly. Very thoughtful, very handy. Thanks Maxime!

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Check out this group of more than twenty American artists that have united to help Joe Biden and Kamala Harris defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Their goal: to get people not only voting for Biden/Harris but to talk about voting for them out loud. This is a cool grass roots effort to affect change through art and design.

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This is a straight up complaint about the confusion around the desktop vs. web font licensing arrangements! Designers are calling for the licence pricing strategy to be simplified, especially considering that many type designers themselves don’t know which formats of their typefaces are used for!

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Heads up! From June 2020 about 50 families/700 fonts from the foundries Font Bureau and Carter & Cone were retired from Adobe’s Creative Cloud. For InDesign users, this is potentially a very big (and bad) deal if you use those fonts in your projects because you will need to either acquire new licenses for them or change the fonts used.

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Goldman Sachs has released its very own typeface, a set of sans-serif fonts dubbed Goldman Sans . And in the spirit of bankers everywhere, the licence for use of the typeface comes with T&C’s which say you are welcome to use the font, so long as you don't use it to criticize Goldman Sachs!

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Fonts offer designers an incredible opportunity for creativity in a wide variety of media. But, with great potential comes great risk. Extensis conducted a font survey to help businesses understand how fonts are used, and expose the hidden risks of font copyright infringement. Some of the results are really quite surprising.

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Few designers, if any, set out to commit copyright infringement. But, brands can often end up with a scattered library of creative assets that is difficult to track and easy to mix up. A suggestion for all designers, new and experienced: simplify your font strategy to be agile and adaptable and to deploy new designs quickly.

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Balcony Signature Script style is a new modern & fresh script with a handwritten style. This font suits elegant and natural designs and is perfect for anything that requires a handwritten feel.

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Short Message is a cute & friendly handwritten font. Perfect for adding a quirky but casual feel, it comes with a large selection of natural-looking ligatures.

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Renatta Walters is an elegant and sweet script with a romantic spark. Use it to add a special enchanting touch to any design.

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Gravitica is a modern sans serif with a geometric touch. It comes in 6 weights, 25 uprights and its matching rounded, italics, so you can use them to your heart’s content. It is designed with powerful opentype features in mind and is perfectly suited for graphic and editorial design, web, signage, documents and mobile interfaces.

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Neon Ambition is seeking a writing powerhouse to help them create outstanding, on-brand blogs, web pages, content offers, and other marketing materials that clients, customers and search engines alike will fall in love with. Apply for this job if you consider yourself a linguistic chameleon, capable of writing in many different voices and styles and are obsessed with creating well-written, carefully-crafted content. You love to learn about new industries, businesses, and ideas and you have a passion for providing readers with useful, engaging information. You understand how to structure information so that it is easy to read and digest and making dry subject matter riveting will be one of your traits.

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The Multimedia Specialist will collaboratively design and create multimedia content for their interactive online learning program and in-person programs for high school students. You will specifically focus on creating videos for product promotions and work with the content writers and other collaborators to create multimedia (audio/video) content for external dissemination. You will also record and edit video and sound projects, capture/import media, organize raw media, edit footage and sound files and create and insert static and motion graphics.

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Eliassen Group is seeking an experienced and creative UX Designer to join their team. The responsibilities will include translating stakeholder requirements into wireframes and mockups and ensuring designs meet both expectations and facilitate an intuitive user experience. You will also conceptualize, design, and develop solutions compatible with a wide range of devices, platforms, and interfaces.

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Third And Grove is currently seeking a proactive and passionate UX/UI/Product Designer for remote contract work. In this role you will be responsible for creating world-class web and product designs from start to finish. The work will include concepting and designing medium to large scale web projects from start to finish under the guidance of the Creative Director, Art Director and in collaboration with the Strategy team. You will also create and maintain design deliverables and have expert knowledge of Adobe CC, Sketch, InVision, Figma.

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Third Date Branding Co is looking for a designer with extensive experience building websites in Wix. Requirements include working examples of live sites made in Wix, a modern and clean design style, Photoshop & Illustrator skills and the ability to present 2-3 design options before creating the final build. You must also have experience integrating plug-ins with Wix and a bonus if you have experience with Wix Corvid, coding experience.

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Lightboard seeks a great freelance designer to join our team. This is a position where you get to work with a lot of different clients, brands, and styles. Most projects are wrapped up in a few days, and the collaboration software keeps feedback and assets organized. Attention to detail, dedication to the craft of design and a positive attitude are a must.

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This role requires you to participate in creative meetings to understand requirements and develop new creative ideas. You will also develop innovative video concepts for marketing and in-app content. Solid conceptual, visualisation, and communication skills during all phases of creative development from inquiry to delivery is a must.

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Thanks for being a member, Micah — your contribution means a lot over here, and I'm glad you're here with us. Hopefully you got a lot of good stuff from this week's links!

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