The Sketchnote Typeface is on Sale!

Several years ago when the 37signals team released their book Rework, I was struck by the beautiful hand-sketched illustrations almost as much as the content of the book itself, and then was delighted to see the same illustrations beautifully translated for the Thai edition of Rework. That beauty was thanks to the work of Mike Rhode, who's since turned his skills into a book — The Sketchnote Handbook. It's got the same charm as his pen-drawn illustrations, and yet he had a secret weapon in making the book — he'd turned his sketchnote writing style into a typeface.

That typeface is, appropriately, the Sketchnote Typeface. It's got the charm of handwritten text with extra whimsy you'd expect from a sketchnote, while being a font you can use in your own work. And from now until New Years, you can get 20% the Sketchnote Typeface with the coupon code TSHBG. That'll get you the Sketchnote Square + Dingbats font — the combination used above — for $23, or the whole typeface of 4 weights for $79 for now until New Years.

Sure, it's not a font you'll want to do all of your work in — that font, for me, is the incredible monospaced font Pitch from Klim Type Foundry — but it is a font you can have a lot of fun with. Sketchnote is that writing font you can use, for once, without getting made fun of. Comic Sans, you've been outclassed big time, this time.

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