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About the journey to the Typographic North
Hello type enthusiasts! I am Kris, the creator of this community. I've made this place for all of us to have distraction-free, interesting and fruitful conversations about typography, type design, book design, publication design and related matters. I've been looking for such a community for years, but found alternatives very noisy and dispersed. So I've decided to build this one. I hope you will join me in creating something great. Years ago, I embarked on a journey towards writing a newsletter about my musings on typography, but a busy life, lack of focus and probably a fair amount of insecurity halted my progress. My hope now is that onboarding more people with similar interests will help me (and everyone here) to develop thoughts on these subjects. So, it's a journey we make together. I do not know where the winds will take us, but I hope we can have informal discussions, share what we're working on, link to inspirational resources, and learn from each other on our journey. Please feel free to make posts about anything you believe is relevant to the group, and comment on other posts to create an engaging community of type friends. And if you have type friends out there, please invite them into this group, so we'll have more people to learn from. See you in the discussions! All the best, Kristen ––– Rules for this group: • Be positive. Constant nay-saying isn't helpful. By all means, be critical, but stay constructive. • No promotions, spammy posts or unsolicited direct messages • Make an effort. When commenting, use more than one word. • Keep it relevant. Posts must be reasonably related to type, design or creative arts. See something you don't like or find noisy? Please report such content to the admin.
Reminder: Typographic get-together TODAY
The first call we had was inspiring, so why not have another one? There's no agenda, just an online hang-out to get to know people in the community and have a chat about our journey. Welcome! See the event in the calendar: https://www.skool.com/typographicnorth/calendar?eid=64615854d47141b6bca7e73a24e400d1
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Typographic get-together Thursday 20 November
The first call we had last week was inspiring, so why not have another one? There's no agenda, just an online hang-out to get to know people in the community and have a chat about our journey. Welcome! See the event in the calendar: https://www.skool.com/typographicnorth/calendar?eid=64615854d47141b6bca7e73a24e400d1
What's the one thing that people don't understand about typography?
Experts here. What is the most common mistake that you see people make in typography? What's the one thing you wish more people understood?
A new Affinity
The largest competitor to the Adobe Creative Suite has been Affinity. They've had their three apps in direct competition to Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator: Affinity Publisher, Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer. In contrast to Adobe's rather pricy subscriptions, Affinity offered affordable one-time purchases. Now, they're releasing something completely new: ONE app for all these areas of work, simply called Affinity. They've also been adopted by Canva, and claim to offer their new app completely for free! With AI as an add-on. I'm excited to see how this will impact designers of all sorts and levels. It's good for Adobe to actually have some real competition, because once we enter a universe such as Adobe's, it can be hard to break out of it. On the other hand, I see a lot of scepticism in the comment regarding what the catch is. It will be interesting to follow the developments. Will you be exploring the new Affinity? Watch the unlisted demo on YouTube here And check out their new site here: https://www.affinity.studio
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