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Let's celebrate our great sponsors!!!
Sponsors get to pick the words they want to adopt, and have their typefaces used in the word’s illustration.
Here with NM type @marsidesino 💖 who adopted Alternate (using Sixten), Compatibility (using Movement Direct), Junction (using Kinetic), Counter (using Sastre), and Display (using Sixten)
If you want to become a sponsor as well, send us an email! 💫
ALSO GREAT NEWS
There are FOUR spots available here too, to join the workshop of the KBI 2025, powered in partnership with Stanford University and @letterformarchive
The 2-sessions workshop for the Arabic group will be lead by Abeera Kamran.
You can also join the FULL PROGRAM (10-sessions) at 400€.
More info and details at https://wordsoftype.com/
MORE GREAT NEWS
Do you want to join the Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator?
There are FOUR spots still available to the Arabic group.
More details and tickets: https://wordsoftype.com/
This program has been created in partnership with Stanford University SILICON (Tom Mullaney) and @letterformarchive 💖
MORE GREAT NEWS
Do you want to join the Knuth–Bigelow Incubator? (KBI for short)
There are FOUR spots available to the S-E Asia group.
Starting this summer from June 23 to July 24.
Fully online and recorded for participants.
10 sessions, 2 per week, from 1,5 to 3 hours.
@typedaybook @boom Sueh Li Tan (Huruf Type) @typojo @fercozzi @letterformarchive SILICON@Stanford Tom Mullaney
More details and tickets: https://wordsoftype.com/
Partnership with @stanfordsilicon and @letterformarchive 💖
GREAT NEWS
There are FOUR spots available to join the workshop the first edition of the Knuth Bigelow Incubator program, powered in partnership with Stanford's SILICON and @letterformarchive
The workshop for the South East Asian group will be lead by @typespecimint
The 2-sessions workshop is available on its own at 220€.
It begins in about a month already (we know it's super short notice...)
More info and tickets at https://wordsoftype.com/
Next lecture at WoT!
Relevance and impact of preserving endangered writing systems, languages and dialects through type design
with @typojo
This lecture is part of the Knuth Bigelow Incubator program, organized in partnership with SILICON (Stanford University) and @letterformarchive
July 3, 2025
1 to 2:30 pm CEST
Recorded
20€
In English
Info and tickets at
https://wordsoftype.com/
#ad #lecture #endangeredscripts #typography #typedesign #typeface #design
TODAY
Lecture with @hectormangas from @typotheque
about Legibility research from a non-Latin perspective, and what we’ve learned with Thai loops
Starting at 4 PM CEST
(previous posts mentioned 2 pm but it is a mistake on us, sorry for the confusion 🙈)
Tickets and details: https://wordsoftype.com/
TOMORROW
Don’t forget to get your ticket to @hectormangas ’s lecture about legibility in typography!
And if you can’t make it to the live session, it is recorded. And everyone who registered will get access to the recording to (re)watch anytime!
Tickets and details at https://wordsoftype.com/
#ad #lecture #typography #typedesign #thai #thaiscript #legibility
It’s this Friday!
Don’t miss this very insightful lecture about typography and legibility, with the example of loops in Thai script.
With @hectormangas from @typotheque
If you can’t make it, the lecture is recorded. So you can still get your ticket, and get access to the recording anytime!
Info and tickets at
https://wordsoftype.com/
The @futurefonts HyperTalks 3.0 event starts a little over an hour from now (13:00 EDT). It’s free and streaming online, with talks from:
- Dương Trần
- @namratagoyal (Universal Thirst)
- Pauline Fourest (Spaghetype)
- Juan Pablo Mejía & Camilo Roa (Réplica)
- Philipp Neumeyer (Rüdiger)
- @dianaovezea & Barbara Bigosińska (@blast_foundry)
- James Edmondson (@ohno)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hypertalks-30-tickets-1318161599829
Chinese characters vary across East Asia due to regional language evolution and reform. Although it is possible to have a single CJK font, letterforms need to align with regional preferences. This article aims to explain the regional variants. https://www.typotheque.com/articles/understanding-cjk-regional-character-variants
NEXT WEEK
Lecture with @hectormangas from @typotheque about
Legibility research from a non-Latin perspective, and what we’ve learned from Thai loops
Details and tickets at
https://wordsoftype.com/
#ad #lecture #typography #typedesign #typeface #thai #legibility #reading
Next:
WoT Conversation Ep.4
About:
Multiscript, Multilingual, Multicultural
with Garine Gokceyan, Thomas Huot-Marchand (ANRT), @lianghai @tosche_e @morgane_pierson 🔥✨😎
When: June 6, from 2 to 3:30pm CEST
Where: Online (Zoom for WoT members + Q&A access, YouTube live broadcast for non-members)
This is a FREE event!
#conversation #live #discussion #typography #multiscript #multilingual #multicultural
Stanford has acquired the prototype of a revolutionary Chinese typewriter long believed lost and known only from its patent documents. https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/05/mingkwai-chinese-typewriter-prototype-stanford-libraries via @metafilter
Words of Type project joins the TDC71 winners!!! @typedirectors
After years and years looking up to many heroes of type design industry, it is now such an honor to receive recognition from this competition.
This gives even more motivation and energy to keep Words of Type going, and to live up to the super high expectations! To infinity and beyond ✨
Due to unplanned last minute event, we had to postpone the lecture and workshop on Cyrillic script with Maria Doreuli @contrastfoundry and @krista
Initially planned for May 3, and May 10 + 24, the new dates are:
June 21 (lecture)
June 28 + July 12 (workshop)
If you already purchased your ticket with the previous dates and the new ones don't work for you anymore, please reach out if you wish to get a refund.
Tickets available at https://wordsoftype.com/
After two years collecting data from 171 independent type foundries, we publish the first statistics and resources of Font Licensing Mess. Visit the site for knowing more about it https://fontlicensingmess.com/
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Hace un par de años iniciamos la recopilación de datos de 171 fundiciones tipográficas independientes. Por fin podemos publicar los primeros resultados y recursos de Font Licensing Mess. Visita la web para saber más https://fontlicensingmess.com/
Next lecture coming soon:
Arabic Script: Then & Now, with @kamal.a.mansour
From simple beginnings, Arabic script developed a rich gamut of sophisticated styles over the centuries. Today, the Arabic writing system serves a readership of hundreds of millions in numerous languages around the globe. [...]
July 3, 2025
5 to 6:30 PM CEST
Online, English
20€
More info and tickets at https://wordsoftype.com/
#ad #lecture #arabic #arabicscript #typography #typedesign #calligraphy
NEXT MONTH
Lecture — Legibility research from a non-Latin perspective, and what we've learned from Thai loops
with @hectormangas from @typotheque
This lecture discusses novel readability research on Thai loops, a key feature of the Thai script with some resemblance to Latin serifs. [...] The findings highlight the importance of studying world scripts to broaden our understanding of legibility beyond the Latin-centric focus of most legibility research.
Info & 🎟️ at https://wordsoftype.com/
Dear friends of type, I am elated to announce that I will be running on the 8th of June the Adidas 10k Paris, in profit of the Ligue contre le cancer, a cancer research association. My mom is a breast cancer survivor and it is a matter very deeply important to me. 1/
