Canva Adds 1,000+ Monotype Fonts Across Global Scripts
Canva and Monotype (one of the world's biggest type foundries, a company that designs and licenses fonts) just added over 1,000 new font styles to Canva, taking its library past 3,000. The biggest jumps are in Hindi (99 families), Bengali (72 families) and Vietnamese (114 families), with new additions in Arabic, Khmer, Lao and Thai too. Monotype's Charles Nix says supporting a language's characters is "only the starting point". The real goal is giving designers different voices and personalities to choose from.
Apple's Stop-Motion Ad Proves Behind-the-Scenes Is Content
People online were sure a new Apple Games advert was made with AI. It wasn't. Apple released a behind-the-scenes video showing the team sculpting and painting physical props, characters and sets, then moving them frame by frame using Dragonframe (the industry-standard stop-motion software). Creative Bloq points out that these process videos are now almost as important as the ads themselves, because they show that real people made the work.
NASA's Design Lead Bans AI Imagery to Protect Trust
David Rager leads brand and design at NASA Headquarters. Before that he worked in museums, agencies and at Disney, and co-founded his own design studio in Paris. He led the project that brought back NASA's retro "worm" logotype, which has since been added to MoMA's permanent collection. He has also banned AI-generated imagery at NASA: "When people look at an image from NASA, they need to understand that it's real… We have the kind of stuff that AI wishes it could make."
Cricut's New StickerPix Turns Your Art Into Stickers
Cricut just released two sticker and label printers. The StickerPix Print (£159.99 bundle) prints onto pre-cut sheets. The StickerPix Print + Cut (£249.99 / $299 bundle) also has a built-in blade that "kiss-cuts" around your design. Kiss-cutting means slicing through the sticker but not the backing, so it peels off cleanly. Both use dye-sublimation printing (heat transfers the ink, so prints come out dry and laminated) and work with the free Cricut Design Space app.
Inca Kola Strips Its Logo. Was It Too Much?
Peru's beloved yellow soda Inca Kola has been rebranded by the agency Epoch. The new logo removes the white type outline, the shape of Peru behind the text and the "since 1935" line. Critics online call it "a bland brand with no visual appeal", but the agency argues the simpler shape now works as a frame for the brand's visuals and stands out better on the shelf.
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TODAY’S THREAD**Proof beats polish.** NASA refuses fake images, Apple shows its hand-made frames, Inca Kola learns what happens when you strip away the meaning, and new tools from Canva and Cricut hand you more ways to make things that are real. As AI makes everything easy to generate, the work that stands out is the work people can *trust*. Make it real, show how you made it, and keep your promises.