I had Laura Worthington on today and it became one of the most interesting podcasts I've ever had because I know so little about this field, even though it's an art form. Laura makes fonts. She comes from a calligraphy background and it's so unique because at a very young age, she knew exactly what she wanted to do. She was focused and completely obsessed with the written word.Laura is one of probably 1500 people in the world that actually makes their entire living from designing fonts. It turns out that she's done fonts for everything. In fact, in my gallery, one of the fonts on the wall for Shonot Begay's work is one of hers. The movie 'Joker' with Joaquin Phoenix has some of her fonts in it as well.You can almost go down just about any road and see her fonts, either on billboards or on your newspaper and so it's a fascinating world she lives in. It's technical too, but that's the interesting part - trying to understand (for me, somebody who is really a neophyte with all of this) what you do to curate and create fonts and just the technology and the language of what it is to be somebody who does this for a living.I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did. She's very dynamic and I would recommend watching this on YouTube if you can because she is very animated and that just adds to the whole joy of the podcast. So Laura Worthington on episode 238 of Art Dealer Diaries Podcast.

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