Help Fund The Next Stage of TypeDrawers - Updated for 2023

James Hultquist-Todd

Updated for 2023:

For that past several years, I have been paying for TypeDrawers out-of-pocket (with donations from some amazing members). This costs me a little under $1,000 a year just to keep the doors open here.

This has led to the site languishing. I’d love to:

• Give the site a more mobile-friendly design.
• Add a section for members to contribute long form essays (a blog?) on various topics in which they are experts.
  
• Related to the last point, make the site not just a place for conversation but a compendium of type design knowledge.
• I’d also love to pay the moderation staff for their time.
  

As of now, I don’t have a budget for these sort of plans as I have no idea what it would cost to develop the site in to what I described above. Research would be required to find the right person/people to build it.

I’m considering opening up the door to sponsorships and, it seems based on a post on Mastodon, people are ok with that.
 

In the meantime, donations can be made through Paypal. 

Thank you all so much!

Marc Oxborrow

I plan to continue my support of TypeDrawers and agree with your funding goals. Would you mind sharing more details, e.g., the total you hope to raise, anticipated changes in the experience, etc.?

Thomas Phinney

I donated more than usual.

James Hultquist-Todd

Marc Oxborrow said:

I plan to continue my support of TypeDrawers and agree with your funding goals. Would you mind sharing more details, e.g., the total you hope to raise, anticipated changes in the experience, etc.?

Hi Marc,

I’ll post all of that information next week; things have been extremely busy here so I haven’t had much time for anything.

James Hultquist-Todd

Here are my tentative plans:

A refresh of the website design (specifically the mobile version) that allows for easier navigation. 

A creation of a “for sale” section to sell specimen, ephemera, and such.

I’d like to introduce some new sections for discussing type in use. I’d also like to start a blog of sorts where members could do some writing (now that there seems to be even more of a dearth of critical writing on type.

The moderators deserve some compensation for their time. I’m not sure how much but I’d like to pay them at least a few hundred dollars a year for their time.

AbiRasheed

James Hultquist-Todd said:

Here are my tentative plans:

A refresh of the website design (specifically the mobile version) that allows for easier navigation. 

Bit late to this post. Appreciate the work put into the place. With regards to the mobile version, I sure hope when you do a revamp it doesn't break the current design because some of us such as myself are on an old iOS version. About 3-4 yrs ago I believe after the revamp it did break and I was unable to view it from my ipad and so I had to leave a post to address it and it was fixed immediately, it's been working ever since. So just something to consider for those of us on old devices! Thanks!

Jani Paavola

Doubled my donation from the last time. Thanks again for existing!

AbiRasheed

So it looks like the revamp may have broken things on the old ios versions. IOS 10.3.3 on the ipad wont load typedrawers anymore. Can we fix this?  thanks

Rishi Murugesan

I'm curious as to the state of this project? Has anyone/agency been selected to help with the experience refresh? As a Product Designer with a love of type, I'd love to help out (if you need it)!

James Hultquist-Todd

The first post has been updated with preliminary information regarding TypeDrawer’s update.

Wei Huang

Happy to make a donation.