We’re launching our first ever call for projects: Support Opensource Signs!

Submit your idea of a typographical project before the 15th of May and get the chance to have it released on Velvetyne and receive support from our team and a tuition of 1800€.

We're looking for weird ideas, under-represented scripts, commercially non-viable projects, projects at the meeting point between language and type design…

Details: https://velvetyne.fr/news/support-opensource-signs-1/

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In TWO weeks
Lecture with @rosaliewagner who will talk about:
Introduction to Font Production

This lecture will talk about the basics, good practices, do's and don'ts when exporting and building font files that will work well in intended media and tools.

Don't miss this great opportunity!
And you can follow up this lecture with the 2-sessions workshop, during which you can get some practice too!

Tickets & more info info at https://wordsoftype.com/

#ad #lecture #workshop #fonts #engineering

Hello everyone! Velvelyne (a funky skeletal typeface) has just been released on our website! https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/velvelyne/
Velvelyne is published under the CUTE conditions, which are different from your plain old SIL OFL, so please check it out. #opensource #font #typeface #velvelyne

Type Designers: I am available for freelance work — in particular I am looking to do some more python tool development.
I have been building all sorts of custom extensions for @RoboFont, tooling for optimizing kerning large families, proofing tools, and even PDF invoice tools using DrawBot/Google Sheet/Dropbox.
My website has my GitHub link and more work!

https://connordavenport.com/

@behdad thanks! avar2 I see, @lorp must be thrilled too! Variable composites though, I could confuse with something else, do you have link to a documentation?

@pixelambacht not even a conference or a font release that you particularly liked ?

What would say happened (outstandingly) in the world of type design and font engineering in 2024? What would you remember from last year? What would you say to someone who was in a professional coma for a year for example?

👀 💌 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

Reminders for WoT Events!!
- Greek typography, w/ @irenevlachou - Indigenous language support, w/ @calligraphio
- Font production & engineering, w/ @rosaliewagner
- Arabic typography, w/ Azza Alameddine

Tickets & more info here:
https://wordsoftype.com/

#ad #lecture #workshop #event #typography #knowledge #arabic #indigenous #fontengineering #greek

I finally moved this out of Google Docs Preview page and self-hosted, as part of my website redesign.

Should work a lot better on various devices, and more responsive too. Hope that helps.

https://behdad.org/text2024/

Why is there no VF interpolation previewer for Glyphs?

I guess there is now. Needs vanilla+fonttools.

https://github.com/simoncozens/Interpolate

@typographica in my head (no idea if my theory is legit): the Book weight refers to the thickness of the old Regular weight when printed in books (using lead characters), which is thicker than our current Regular, which is more or less based on digitization from the matrix (and not the printed form, hence why lighter). Am I clear? Does it make sense?

I have to start working again in 1.5 month after a year of absence (pregnancy sickness + maternity leave). I think I am starting to panick. How do I make myself exist again in this professional network? I know how to be a freelancer, but how do you do it whilst taking care of a 9 month breastfed baby? Freelancing parents, please give me your tips.

And following our lecture with @rosaliewagner there is also this 2-days workshop!!! To get your hands INTO your fonts 🖥️💡🔧⚙️

Introduction to Font Production
April 12 and 19, 2025
2 to 6pm CET
Online, in English, 220€
Limited to 12 participants

Tickets and more info at link in bio or https://www.wordsoftype.com

#ad #workshop #fontengineering #engineering #export #mastering #fonts

Upcoming WoT Lecture!!!
Introduction to Font Production, with @rosaliewagner

April 5, 2025
2 to 4 pm CET
20€
Tickets and more info at link in bio or https://www.wordsoftype.com

#ad #lecture #font #fontengineering #engineering #mastering #metadata #export

It is quite disheartening to witness in real time the collapse of French public art schools (including the one where I teach), among so many other institutions. I know there are worse things happening now and for a while in the world, but if this process of destruction continues, many of them will close in the next few years.

Save the date!
Automatic Type Design, 3rd edition

ENSAD Nancy, 17–21 February 2025

ATD symposium focuses on digital font technologies, from design to production. In its third edition, it aims to examine digital type design and typography, their concepts, and challenges from both historical and forward-looking perspectives.

more info:
https://automatic-type-design.anrt-nancy.fr/colloques/automatic-type-design-3

@AleksandraSamulenkova of course! It’s a question of context and knowing more or less what you do. Dissonance is beautiful when mastered, reforming orthography is necessary when outdated, choosing the straight apostrophe can be relevant if conveying a purpose.

@AleksandraSamulenkova imo typography is all about a bunch of conventions put up over decades to create a sense of harmony (just like music) or common understanding (just like orthography). The wrong apostrophe might not be harmonious even though we get it. Also, those rules make your life easier; you know what to do in a certain context and you don’t have to think much about it when you have so many decisions to make already. Better to fight conventions when it is meaningful and worth a debate.