The typography experts at Monotype Studio just released their latest Type Trends report for 2022. The trend report is a thoughtfully curated collection of design work from across the globe, demonstrative of today’s underlying currents propelling typography and all things letters, numbers, and well, you know the deal.

Prepared under their creative type directors Charles Nix and Phil Garnham’s guidance, the report identifies ten trends in type, Neue Nouveau, Svelte Serifs, Loopy, Mix-Up, Organic-Mod, Flux, Throw-Up, It’s a Trap!, Certified Gold, and NF-Type. The most significant macro global trends currently influencing typography identified by the report include the metaverse, COVID, and the destruction of the environment—which Nix and Garnmham point out is the only trend that actually matters.

After all, there isn’t much point designing if there’s no place to design or anyone left to design for, right?