Supporting work by women in type, typography, and the lettering arts since 2015
Image: Women’s Auxiliary Typographical Union at Labor Day 1909, Lib. of Congress
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We’ve just published an article about Font Licensing Mess on the @alphabettes blog. The text is available in English https://www.alphabettes.org/font-licensing-mess-2/
Y también en español https://www.alphabettes.org/font-licensing-mess/
📣 The pre-sale for Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type is *almost* here. It's been an honor to work w/ every author and contributor (100+ people!) on bringing this pot to boil.
🚨 We're ~$7k short! Join an illustrious group of 35 generous foundries, studios, and companies to make this book come to life. 📧 [email protected]
💸 Donations (>$500) can be made through PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XQ2KKETARYDG8
All sponsors & donators will be acknowledged in the book.
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@alphabettes
@MauriceMeilleur Apparently no one went for the bonus yet. Alphabettes’s It’s time to act was a milestone debate. https://www.alphabettes.org/its-time-to-act/
And of course the mothers of it all: Hedonist marketing https://typographica.org/on-typography/sexism-and-fonts/
Diversifying Type Drawers et al ff https://typedrawers.com/discussion/1049/diversifying-typedrawers
https://typedrawers.com/discussion/1198/diversification-postmortem
Plus many more.
Happy 10 years anniversary, @alphabettes!
🎉 Behind the Headers!
@alphabettes went live in September 2015 but was missing one thing: an official logo. Since then, we’ve featured nearly 250 headers showcasing new type and lettering.
📚 Our book, Alphabettes Soup, will include the full ten year archive of headers but we need your help to make this soup sizzle! Sponsor / donate here: https://tinyurl.com/alphabettes-soup
💚 Type: Sharf Headline Black and Sharf Text Black by Barbara Bigosińska; Tiny Grotesk by Robin Mientjes. Photo: Matilde Cunha.
So here’s a thing we did last week
A free workshop to make posters for the women’s march At UNAM-Iztacala, a faculty of mostly biological and medical sciences at the National University here in México.
I’ll be joining the @alphabettes hangout at some point to talk about this if you wanna chisme. 👀
📣⏰️❤️ What time is it? It is almost time for our annual tradition: the @alphabettes 24-Hour Hangout to celebrate International Women's Day!
Details are here: https://www.alphabettes.org/24-hour-hangout-for-international-womens-day-2025/
See you in 12 hours 😵💫☕️🎉
👀 💌 In Feb. 2016, Alphabettes.org published 29 Love Letters to geek out over things we love. By the end of the month, we saw the blog’s potential to amplify new voices — there was so much love to share. Full series: https://www.alphabettes.org/love-letters/
📗 Alphabettes Soup 2015–2025: Ten Years of Feminist Approaches to Type (Bikini Books), will feature 26 letters, along with 50+ new and revised essays. Help make it happen! Sponsor or donate:
👉 https://tinyurl.com/alphabettes-soup
🔤: Tiny Grotesk by Robin Mientjes
María Ramos
Amy Papaelias
Indra Kupferschmid 💙💛
Kai Bernau
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