August 28, 2025 Something Interesting 1 min read

Something Interesting, Week 13

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Hi, welcome. A lot of visual communication (and some sounds) in this week’s Something Interesting.

Type foundries and designers have the best sites. I absolutely love anything Grilli Type releases to the internet.

And while on the topic of letters, I find myself sharing Fontstand regularly with people who care about typography and want a broader selection than Google Fonts.

The tl;dr is that you can rent fonts monthly, and after paying for a year, the font is yours. I have already done this with a few, including releases from Commercial Type, Indian Type Foundry, and Letters from Sweden.

Fontstand is a Typotheque project, which regularly publishes essays like this one.

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