Nodding back to the first issue of Typeone, the design system features Diatype from Dinamo, with Xiaoyuan Gao\u2019s Common Sans which, for a moment, was nearly the solo typeface of the whole magazine for its \u201cexuberance and sincerity\u201d, says Harry. Alongside these two, VTC Bayard by Vocal Type, Tacmitac by BB Bureau, Montiac by Fabiola Mej\u00eda and G2 Airdancer by Ishar Hawkins all feature. \u201cThe magazine itself wears its skeleton on its sleeve,\u201d says Alice. \u201cUltimately, what makes up the creative scene of today is the people actually making, doing, writing, thinking and crafting. That\u2019s why we used their typefaces throughout \u2013 with each person we spoke to\u2019s article being set in their own typefaces.\u201d<\/p>\n
Led by designers, edited by designers and filled with designers, Typeone\u2019s best quality is that it feels like a living, breathing thing \u2013 actively responding to the industry it serves and depicts. During the lockdown in 2020, Alice and Harry jumped in after the original designer dropped out, finding themselves building the editorial identity from scratch \u2013 the spontaneity and flexibility that defined the first issue still prevails to its tenth. \u201cAt the outset of the magazine back in 2020, we created an editorial design system with set systematic restrictions that allowed each issue to be uniquely designed in response to its specific theme,\u201d says Harry. \u201cIt meant it was flexible in all the right places, and nice and strict in others so that over all ten issues, you can see the consistent moments and the places that really reflect the theme.\u201d It\u2019s not precious, which is what makes it \u201ca capsule of contemporary type and design\u201d, as Harry puts it.<\/p>\n
After 25 years into this century\u2019s prolific output of design, Harry thinks it\u2019s now \u201ca matter of remixing things\u201d. Historical revivals are increasingly more common with digital influences completely changing the form. \u201cTypefaces are our digital way of expressing language,\u201d says Alice. \u201cHow we think, write and communicate and what typefaces we do that with are so intrinsically interlinked that I\u2019m excited to see how these keep evolving alongside and because of each other.\u201d Whether it\u2019s experiments in AI, how languages change or how type design thrives in today\u2019s busy visual culture, Typeone is going to continue responding, wherever typography goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nodding back to the first issue of Typeone, the design system features Diatype from Dinamo, with Xiaoyuan Gao\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-314729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}