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Ask P22’s Richard Kegler and he’ll tell you not knowing the rules of type design can sometimes lead to the most interesting work.
Every year, the design blogosphere publishes plenty of lists about current typography trends. This year, the range feels enormous. Certainly too wide to define. If you look through work from 2026 on Fonts In Use, you’ll see combinations from traditional to the seemingly off balance. Bookish typefaces become enormous headlines. Elaborate, maximalist choices coexist with irregular serifs. Typefaces that don't seem to go together at first end up looking entirely appropriate when paired. There is an abundance of expressive type, type that evokes emotion, type that feels right for the words, the images, the format… for the context. Type that seems to surpass any tidy list of dominant trends.
The story of how type design became a cottage industry and how independent designers actually got discovered and paid for their craft, is still untold. I propose these five moments: a tool, a pivot, an accelerator, a new medium, and a disruption.
My interest in type design traces back to a type design project I did in college as an art student 50 years ago. I wrote about it here last March and shared it on social media. A commenter on Instagr…
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