Kyle Letendre

Big Softy in Portland
Lettering, Type, Illustration

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2025-05-14

Type has been an enormous fixation for as long as I can remember, and I've found tremendous meaning and value pursuing it. Somewhere between quarantine, losing a close friend and peer in this space (Adé Hogue), and existing within an ever-more-stressful world, I lost my confidence entirely within it. I'm grateful for friends who gently prodded me back to it, and so humbled by the response to Soft Text in the past day. Thank you, sincerely.

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2025-05-14

@typearture Thank you so much, Arthur! Means a lot from you—I adore your work, always one of my favorites to share with students especially. What you've proven to be doable is wild and inspiring.

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2025-05-13

@julientaq Thank you so much!

Totally fair questions! It's my understanding (and hope) that this can be used for projects of any kind—client or personal. And I don't have any intention to change the license! I just hope to add more features, like fractions, additional language and currency support, and god willing, a bold, and an italic.

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2025-05-13

@jabronus Thank you so much! 🥹

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2025-05-13

Whoops love to say soft and gentle

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2025-05-13

I just released my new font Soft Text on FutureFonts. If you've taken a workshop with me over the last handful of years, this is what the materials were set in—a gentle, easy to read, gently-contrasted sans. future-fonts.com/soft-type/sof

A preview image of Kyle Letendre's new font, Soft Text. It says "New Type release! V0.1 — Soft Text: A gentle text typeface by Soft Type (Kyle Letendre) now available at Future Fonts. It won't yell at you. Even when you eat the last cookie." The imagery around it is pen and ink illustrations of a bush, a fir tree, nopales and a fern, with soft blue off-set behind it.A waterfall image teasing Soft Text. It shows the type in sentence case, justified. The design is gentle, rounded, with light contrast and an open structure. Easy to read, fruity mouthfeel.A teaser image for Soft Text. Black text on blue background reads: "Sixteen Weirdly Serious Bluffing Eaglets (and other birds I've learned not to trust)." Writing specimens is fun if you want it to be!
Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2025-04-17

I started a new substack! Writing about my sketchbook practice, and teasing new type releases—more soon. heykyle.substack.com/p/drawing

Kyle Letendre boosted:
2023-07-02

A Happy Pride spotlight message from @heykyle presented at this year's Typographics Conference.
vimeo.com/839290059

Kyle Letendre boosted:
2023-05-03

A bunch of new workshops have been posted for the Typographics festival in June, including classes on analog and digital lettering, teaching web typography, Python scripting, and more – from teachers like Ken Barber, @Fontnerd, @heykyle, and @MauriceMeilleur.

In-person attendees of the main Typographics conference are also offered a reduced rate for all workshops.

More info here:
2023.typographics.com/workshop

Banners promoting workshops:
Python for Designers
Expressive Lettering
Pattern & Animation with Python & DrawBot
Teaching Type on the Web
The Modern Letter
Digital Lettering Effects
Lettering Tricks & Techniques
Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2023-02-16

Monograms for my neighbors who love mushrooms.

Kyle Letendre boosted:
2023-02-09

People complain that there are too many fonts in the world and that we should stop making so many new ones, but nobody ever says that about IPAs.

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2023-01-25

@typophrenic I just got excited to send this to you, and then realized ... it was you who posted it. Still learning mastodon.

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2023-01-19

@jasonsantamaria @Typographics I'll see you there??

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2023-01-18

Putting together teaching materials for Drop Cap, Monogram and the Illustrated Word with @coopertype! Spots available here: coopertype.org/event/drop_cap_

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2023-01-09

@colinmford Ahh! This is good to know—and thank you for the additional context. Things do feel more mellow and kind here and I'm grateful to @admin for keeping it friendly! I'll take my troll-trolling down too :)

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2023-01-09

Teaching a new course at Cooper Union this spring! Drop Cap, Monogram and the Illustrated Word is a 6-week online course about the fusion of lettering and illustration. And I'm so excited! Registration is open now—we kick off on February 22nd! coopertype.org/event/drop_cap_

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2022-11-17

Something for New Belgium's SF Taproom!

Kyle Letendreheykyle@typo.social
2022-11-09

Hello Mastodon, xoxo this flaming chromosexual.

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