The Type Pod
Anitra and Jason are two type nerds, who share the strange and wonderful stories of the typefaces we read every day (and their mutual disdain for Goudy)
The Type Pod
Emergency Pod - Welcome to the resistance Calibri!
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Thesiswhisperer
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Season 2
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Episode 3
An emergency podcast. Ripped straight from the headlines of a couple weeks ago.
When Calibri was unceremoniously replaced by Times New Roman under the Trump administration, we chose to process our feelings—potential travel ban be damned.
Yes, this episode is about fonts. And no, it’s really not.
In a looser, more unscripted conversation than usual, we turn rage into humour while exposing how typography has always been political: shaping authority, enforcing norms, and quietly excluding people.
Typefaces, it turns out, have never been neutral.