# Designing Fonts (and more) with Helena Zhang!

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**Category:** design\
**Created:** [September 30, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-fonts-and-more-with-helena-zhang/669940 "2024-09-30T18:39:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2024, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designing-fonts-and-more-with-helena-zhang/669940/1 "2024-09-30T18:39:01Z")

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Hi everybody - in my latest interview, I chat with Helena Zhang, creator of the awesome Departure Mono font:

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/d/2/d2fe9a3b0c31c22a69910131a0a54cb2fc697909.jpeg "Helena Zhang: Font Design, Retro/Pixel Art, and More! 👾") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X5CJxYnpEE)

The whole interview is a great deep-dive into the massive amount of work it takes to building a font. [My latest newsletter](https://www.kirupa.chat/p/designing-the-perfect-pixel-font) talks a bit more about it 🙂

As an aside, this seems like a good time to bring back the archive of pixel sites that I have been dragging my feet on for decades.

Cheers,  
Kirupa