Two tickets for Departure, please

11/20/24 • 107 min

Today we’re joined by a dynamic duo, Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried, who team up on all sorts of digital passion projects. This includes the wildly popular Phosphor Icons plus their latest joint, Departure Mono, a monospaced pixel font with a lo-fi technical vibe... that both Adam & Jerod are pretty much in love with. We discuss their tastes & inspirations, how they collab, making money on passion projects like these, velvet ropes & so much more.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.
Timescale – Purpose-built performance for AI Build RAG, search, and AI agents on the cloud and with PostgreSQL and purpose-built extensions for AI: pgvector, pgvectorscale, and pgai.
Wix Studio – Wix Sudio is for devs who build websites, sell apps, go headless, or manage clients. Integrate, extend and write custom scripts in a VS code-based IDE. Leverage zero set up dev, test and production environments. Ship faster with an AI code assistant. And work with Wix headless API’s on any tech stack.
WorkOS – A platform that gives developers a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise-ready features to their application. Add Single Sign-On (Okta, Azure, Google, Microsoft OAuth), sync users from any SCIM directory, HRIS integration, audit trails (SIEM), free magic link sign-in. WorkOS is designed for developers and offers a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations. Learn more and get started at WorkOS.com

Featuring:

Helena Zhang – LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Tobias Fried – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Project sites

Fonts mentioned

Other cool stuff

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

11/20/24 • 107 min

Changelog Interviews - Two tickets for Departure, please

Transcript

Transcript for Changelog Interviews #618 Jerod Santo:

We are here with Helena Zhang and Tobie Fried, makers of awesome primitives, icons, fonts etc. Welcome to the show.

Helena Zhang:

Thanks so much, Jerod.

Tobias Fried:

Yeah, great to be here.

Jerod Santo:

Y'all caught my eye with Departure Mono. Holy cow. Departuremono.com. First of all, lover of monospace fonts... Second of all, lover of this website. This was a coll

Generate a badge

Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode

Select type & size

Copy