Canva Adds 1,000+ Pro Fonts in Many Languages
On September 24, Canva and Monotype (one of the world's biggest type companies) added more than 1,000 new font styles to Canva, bringing the total from Monotype and its partner foundries (studios that design typefaces) to over 3,000. Much of the new batch covers scripts that creative tools have long under-served: Hindi gains 298 styles, Bengali 237, and Vietnamese-supporting families 249, alongside new Arabic, Thai, Khmer, and Lao options.
Apple Music's Bold New Logo Moves Away From Minimalism
Apple has quietly given Apple Music a new wordmark (a logo made only of styled text). It first appeared at the new Apple Music Hall at London's Battersea Power Station. The clean San Francisco typeface is gone, replaced by a chunky, all-lowercase "music" with thick, narrow strokes, rounded curves, and tight letter spacing. Many people are calling the look Y2K-retro.
Jessica Hische: Lettering Is Part of the Message
Lettering artist and three-time New York Times bestselling author Jessica Hische is finishing her children's emotional wellness trilogy with *Tomorrow I'll Be Happy* (Penguin Workshop, out October 20). She draws warm, slightly wobbly hand-lettering and adds small playful details, like cats sitting on letters, so the type itself carries the feeling. Her approach is to treat lettering as a core part of the message, never as decoration placed on top of it.
Cricut Launches StickerPix Printers for Custom Stickers
On September 24, Cricut launched StickerPix, its first line of machines built for making stickers at home. The StickerPix Print + Cut ($299) prints, laminates (adds a protective clear coating), and cuts custom stickers in one machine. The StickerPix Print ($169) prints onto pre-cut sticker sheets.
Uncommon Wins a Black Pencil for Mocking Beauty Buzzwords
The agency Uncommon won a D&AD Black Pencil (one of advertising's top prizes) for "The Periodic Fable," a campaign for skincare brand The Ordinary. It was a spoof periodic table listing 49 empty beauty-industry buzzwords, from "flawless" to "crushed diamonds." Website traffic rose 11.8x, and co-founder Nils Leonard said: "In a world of AI and hacks and shortcuts, [real] work is sexy and attractive."
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