Katy Mawhood

Michele Laseau (US Art Director) said:

I'm always looking for inspiration for typography, and I like to share simple examples of it's impact with the Editorial Teams. I just came across this great video on the impact of typography, for everyone who loves type. The LEGO one made me laugh!

http://www.ladd-design.com/thank-a-type-designer

It's a nice post and reminds me that the choice to license font software shouldn't be determined by legal risk. It'd be great to secure a regular budget for fonts with every title, but that's not going to happen until we can manage the risk effectively.

Differs according to whether you're licensing or browsing. E.g. do you mean good UX / UI for marketing or licensing? With approval processes of a mid-to-large business, the "browsing" stage is typically on a different day to the "licensing" stage.

Despite browsing from an indie shop front, I often end up licensing from myfonts and font spring over individual foundry sites because:

a) predictable, e.g. it gives license details up front;
b) login is quick (many sites don't offer guest login);
c) quick, clutter-free page load.

Google Fonts is great for perusing / filtering. All our designers use it for browsing over our font management system. I've never seen that happen with our other font libraries.

2016 White Paper on the BBC's future, w/ three main issues:

Who doesn't want to be a kind guerrilla warrior? It just sounds so philanthropic.

Hrant H. Papazian said:

Try as I might I can't get around BBC's IP snooping... It seems they adamantly don't want to spread the cultural wealth, even if it costs them nothing.

It's a pretty recent thing isn't it? They're mostly targeting UK TV Licensing, following funding cuts. But, agreed – they ought to figure something out for other counties.