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Fonts actually worth licensing in August

Inspiration

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Aug 18, 2026

Fonts actually worth licensing in August

A slimmed-down Dinamo system, a brutalist stencil from Blaze Type, an inflated Art Deco icon and a Softdrive serif cleverer than it lets on. Four worth licensing this month.

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
The psychology of gear acquisition syndrome

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Aug 18, 2026

The psychology of gear acquisition syndrome

Why we buy the gear before we do the thing — and how the best brands designed the ladder we climb.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Everyone's watching women shrink again

Culture

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Aug 18, 2026

Everyone's watching women shrink again

Body positivity didn't end. It was only ever a truce, and the truce just ran out.

Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
The Weekly Rundown: Poppi ditched every wellness convention and won

The Rundown

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Aug 12, 2026

The Weekly Rundown: Poppi ditched every wellness convention and won

Also: one ballot, one flesh, why your Wi-Fi in Bali beats your office's, and the billboard Netflix trapped a man in for three days — and it worked.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
Netflix trapped a man in a billboard for three days and it worked

Campaigns

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Aug 11, 2026

Netflix trapped a man in a billboard for three days and it worked

A bathrobe, a stack of books and a whiteboard for talking to the traffic below. The film he was up there advertising had already started streaming without him.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
One ballot, one flesh

Culture

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Aug 11, 2026

One ballot, one flesh

A tradwife influencer with half a million followers wants your husband to cast your vote for you. She's already outvoted the room by herself.

Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
Lucía Rivas Alfonzo
My essential guide to remote working while travelling

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Aug 11, 2026

My essential guide to remote working while travelling

Two months working across Europe taught me a paradox: having a job to do made the trip more relaxing, not less.

Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Natalia Gomez Uyabán
Poppi's Playbook: own mass-market wellness by committing category treason

Campaigns

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Aug 11, 2026

Poppi's Playbook: own mass-market wellness by committing category treason

How deleting the "Hippie Tax" and burning its own origin story made a fermented vinegar drink worth $1.95 billion to PepsiCo.

Jair Lucena
Jair Lucena
The Weekly Rundown: How Nolan stayed the only voice in the room

The Rundown

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Aug 6, 2026

The Weekly Rundown: How Nolan stayed the only voice in the room

Also: why BTS said no to a Grammy category built for them, the yoghurt brand that stopped listing what it left out, and the orthopedic shoe ad set during the zombie apocalypse.

Tom Mackay
Tom Mackay
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