#typofile

I’m a young designer, I’m about to graduate next year but I know enough to know that I still don’t know anything. I have finally stopped googling “Project-Theme-Goes-Here” on DaFont (coming up with the most obvious and atrocious abomination I could find), and instead have tried to educate myself on the conventional professional fonts.

I find that when I discover a font I pick it up and wear it like at new hat, for about a month that font is who I am I use it on everything I can get away with it on. Sometimes, for uses the font wasn't designed for and clearly did not want to be used in that way. Then I’m off to my next new big font, and you know I didn’t give that last font a call the next day.

I can’t wait until that “honey-moon period” is over with the classic professional typefaces. I want to not have to “get to know them” and just want to skip to the part where there are no surprises and I know and understand how most of them work. I want to be driving a minivan and have a mortgage in Calabasas with typography already. Until then I have to continue this cycle of love em & leave em.