Typography in Your Inbox (arriving mid-2026)

Typography lives by the details. The moment a curve transitions to a straight line. The crafted space between characters. The subtle rhythm of strokes across a line. These minutiae might escape notice, but they form the architecture of all written communication.

Daily Quadrat delivers these details to your inbox, at a cadence you choose.

Two Types of Emails

Daily Curiosities — Short daily notes on type. A kind of word of the day email meant to highlight interesting concepts. Sent every day except Tuesday.

Weekly Dispatch — Longer-form writing on typography and design: history, essays, news, interviews, recommended reading, and found fragments from type and design culture. Sent every Tuesday.

You Choose the Frequency: Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, or Monthly

Typography spans five centuries, crossing disciplines from punch-cutting to printing, from metal to pixels. Its specialized vocabulary—part craft, part history, part technical necessity—remains largely unknown to those who use type every day. Some terms describe objects that no longer exist physically but persist in the software we use. Others reveal how printers of the Victorian era conducted business, or how designers code CSS today.

To understand typography is to see the underpinnings of our textual world. Like discovering the fine silk lining in a well-tailored garment, learning this vocabulary reveals the craft beneath the surface.

Our subscribers aren’t just designers. They’re writers who care about the look of their words. They’re developers who build today’s reading environments. They’re curious minds who understand that history informs the future—after all, we’ve been solving problems of readability, hierarchy, and visual rhythm since Gutenberg.

Subscribe to Daily Quadrat, and each dispatch becomes a journey through time. You’ll see the ghosts of handset type in today’s fonts and recognize how yesterday’s technical constraints became modern stylistic convention.