You’ve seen Mrs Eaves everywhere—even if you’ve never known her name. In this episode, we uncover the story behind one of the most familiar typefaces around, and its designer, Suzanna Licko—a woman who gets credit for her work (well, mostly… it’s complicated).

Anitra dives into the research with plenty of side-eye and a healthy distrust of design history, informed in part by having gone to design school with private school boys. Along the way, we detour into the HR relations of early 18th-century print shops, trade magazines, and the so-called legibility wars of the early 1990s.

Stick with us—or better still, visit our website to see Mrs Eaves used in the transcript—and you’ll leave ready to dominate bookstores with your new favourite game: guess that book cover typeface (Spoiler alert: it's probably Mrs Eaves).

"Back to Font" is out now in English, German, and Spanish! Buy it on Amazon. It's got 5 stars!

Visit our website thetypepod.org to see the show notes.

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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.

"Back to Font" is out now in English, German, and Spanish! Buy it on Amazon. It's got 5 stars!

Visit our website thetypepod.org to see the show notes.

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This episode we talk about Transport, which is not a typeface. We know this for sure because designer Margaret Calvert said so in an email to us.

If you have ever driven anywhere you will know the (not a) typeface Transport, as it was purposefully designed for roads. What you may not know is that the typeface is just one part of an extensive information system designed to help us all get where we want to go. Hopefully without hitting deers or pedestrians along the way.

In this episode Anitra gets way too excited about the DIN system, and wasn't embarrassed at all when Jason schooled her on what vulgar fractions are.

See examples of Transport by driving down the road OR at our website thetypepod.org

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"Back to Font" is out now in English, German, and Spanish! Buy it on Amazon. It's got 5 stars!

Visit our website thetypepod.org to see the show notes.

#wehategoudy