Alphabettes

Portland! Alphabettes Soup has arrived and is ready to be unboxed. Get your copy TODAY at Volumes Design Library (@volumes.designlibrary ) where designer Tereza Bettinardi (@terezabettinardi ) will be giving a lecture about the madness of designing our 400-page baby using no less than 116 (!!!) font families. Join her today, Tuesday, May 12th at 6PM and get this soup while it’s hot! 💚 Part of @psugdkemeny lecture series, RSVP at the link in their bio!

Joc Display making an appearance in Alphabettes Soup 🍲 – Feminist Approaches to Type. A playful mix of voices, forms, and perspectives; we are happy to see it among such great company. Explore Joc via Type-O-Tones Designed by @sabinakipara • • • #Alphabettes #JocDisplay #type0tones #sabinakipara #typedesign

On the blog: "Devanagari Typography 101: A guide for typesetting with Latin" by @aasawari_kulkarni , a deep dive into some best practices for setting Devanagari alongside Latin type. Also, check out the blog header in Wefts, a new typeface also by Aasawari! Images: 1. Vertical Devanagari Type set without the Shirorekha (Kolhapur, India) 2. Hand painted street sign. from Auranagbad (india) Using two lettering styles for contrast: condensed + script 3. Examples using stroke weight and contrast to help with font matching 4. Wefts as the current Alphabettes header

THIS BABE IS HERE 💚 Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type! Come by at 6pm at Bikini Books, Rua António José da Silva, 63, Porto, for a soft lunch and presentation with drinks and DJ set by @caliente.isa !!

A is for Alphabettes—but also for Amy 💚 The first bound copy of Alphabettes Soup goes to its editor, Amy Papaelias, community builder extraordinaire. Come say hi to her tomorrow at our soft launch, starting at 6pm at Bikini (Rua António José da Silva, 63, Porto)! A little over two years ago, when Bikini was still a fabulation, we received a charming email from Ms. Papaelias: “Are you accepting book proposals?” A design educator from New Paltz, Amy wanted to make a book celebrating Alphabettes—the decentralized community she helped grow—and was looking for a publisher, but not an academic one. Little did she know she had come knocking on the door of a feminist type nerd, and one who knew the industry’s misogyny all too well. It sounded like a dream. What followed was an intense two-year collaboration. We plotted and executed a financing plan, revised and expanded the book’s content list, and came up with an ambitious brief: a feminist book on type cannot only tell stories—it should also be a type specimen. One that functions as a discovery guide for readers and type nerds alike. It was a journey full of jokes and puns, but also a sheer amount of stress, from missing texts to incomplete character sets, to tariffs, delays, fires, and cancelled flights. We handled everything with our secret ingredient: “hot feminist butter”—patience and listening, whipped with a lot of humour and improvisation. Big lesson: working together actually means working together. Instead of long email threads, there were calls and face-to-face time. We met up in New Paltz, Mainz, New York, Stockholm—and now Porto. Maiadouro (@graficamaiadouro ), our printer, is delivering the first batch of books this afternoon, so come around TOMORROW, Thursday April 2, to celebrate with us!! There will be cake, and yes—there will be music.

ALPHABETTES SOFT LAUNCH 💙 PORTO, APRIL 2 Join us this Thursday, April 2, at 18:00 at the Bikini Books office for a cozy get-together to celebrate our newest baby: Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type, 400 pages of feminist bookxmaxxing! The book’s editor, Amy Papaelias, will be in town and will give a short presentation, followed by drinks and a DJ set by the DJ Caliente Isa (@caliente.isa ) Program 18:00 — Doors open + mingle 18:30 — Presentation on Alphabettes 19:00 — DJ set by Caliente Isa + drinks Rua Antônio José da Silva, 63, Porto Amy Papaelias is a design educator based in New York, currently teaching at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and co-founder of Alphabettes. Special launch treat: On this day only, Alphabettes Soup will be available at a special price — €35 (instead of €42). Come grab a copy for yourself… and maybe one for your BFF. See you there!!

JUST BORN! 💚 Our baby is beautiful and healthy—1.14 kg of pure typographical joy: Alphabettes Soup! 400 pages of feminist approaches to type, marinated in Amy Papaelias’ (@amypapaelias )secret sauce of care and spontaneity, spiced by copy and line editor Caren Litherland (@litherland ), and whipped to perfection by chef Tereza Bettinardi (@terezabettinardi ). Printed at Maiadouro (@graficamaiadouro ) Folding and binding next week. Authors, sponsors and pre-orders will be the first to receive this typographical beauty, shipping out from the early days of April. Official launch at Typographics (@typographicsnyc ) in New York City in June. Soft launching in many locations, starting in Porto on April 2. Order now via Bikini Books or with the world’s best distributors, Idea Books (@ideabooksnl )

💖 New on the blog: "Process Behind Dukat: shaping letters and ideas side by side" by @alyona.korysta on her typeface Dukat and the research, inspiration, and experimentation behind it. 🚀Alphabettes.org

Happy International Women’s Day 💖✨️🌈 We are taking a break from the 24-Hour Hangout this year. Instead of hanging out, we'll be hanging *in*. Need an idea for how to celebrate the day? Our book, Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type, edited by Amy Papaelias, designed by Tereza Bettinardi, and published by Bikini Books, heads to the printer very soon (hang tight!). We are so grateful to all our sponsors and donors but came up a bit short of our financial goals. But you can help! Pre-order your copy of Alphabettes Soup today! Pre-ordering the book supports independent feminist publishing and the work of women and gender diverse individuals in type. What a great way to celebrate the day 💕 More on the blog / bio: /24-hour-hang-in-march-8-2026/ Hang in there 💚

🌟 Goodbye, 2025 🌟 Take a look back at this year’s Alpheaders.org headers: __Hespera (wip) typeface by Muk Monsalve — January 1 · @mukmonsalve __Typeface Don’t (wip) by Raven Mo — January 15 · @ravenmodesign __Thai, Crushual Italic by Boom Promphan S. · @boom.type __Arabic F37 Morta by Shaqa Bovand — February 15 · @shaqabovand __Georgian by Ana Sanikidze — March 1 · @wickedletters __Lettering by Brooke Hull — March 15 · @brookehull_designs __Aksan by Yaprak Buse Çağlar — April 1 @typolea __Rubina Typeface by Lora Shtirkova — April 15 · @loraincolors __Devanagari (WIP) by Lipi Raval — May 1 · @lipi.xyz _Hangul (WIP) by Joohee Lee — May 15 · @jooo.h __CMM Coda by Anna Cairns — June 1 · @a____cairns __Sumprat by Anne-Dauphine Borione (Daytona Mess) — June 15 · @daytonamess.otf __Palestine Still Bleeds — “Alphabettes” in Arabic by Omaima Dajani — July 1 · @omaima_dajani __Gustine Extra by Natalie Rauch — July 15 · @natalierauch __Vietnamese by Đông Trúc — August 1 · @do_ngtruc __Betania Patmos by Carolina Giovagnoli — August 15 · @laranadg __Party lettering by Carine Vadet-Perrot — September 1 · @carinevadetperrot __For the Flowers Crushed with Bombs — Alphabettes in Arabic by Maryam Golpayegani — September 15 · @golpayegani.maryam __Loew Next Devanagari by Amélie Bonet — October 1 · @ameacute __Vietnamese lettering by Xindha Yaeger — October 18 · @designedbyxin __Shariit by Nada Abdallah — November 1 · @nadabdalla __Mabuhay Display by Clara Cayosa — November 15 · @clarasees _Epitafio (in progress) by Mónica Rodiño — December 1 · @mrodinho 💛 Thank you to @mukmonsalve & @amypapaelias for keeping the headers flowing all year long. And to all the incredible designers who shared their work. 📖 Coming up real soon — Alphabettes Soup — Feminist Approaches to Type, our book that also features the full 10-year archive of headers (Sept 2015-Nov 2025) 💛 Published with @bikini.books 🎉 Pre-orders now — link in bio. ✨ Want to submit a header in 2026? Reach out via our site’s contact page (link in bio). 💛 We warmly welcome submissions of in all scripts, translations, and transliterations. In-progress work, new releases, old releases, all type or lettering!

🔥 DISCOUNT ALERT🔥 The first 150 pre-orders of Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type are 10% off on the Bikini website. Pre-orders help us bring this beast to life. Get it while it’s hot and support independent feminist publishing today! Since 2015, Alphabettes has been advancing, supporting, and shaping the next generation of women and gender-diverse people in type. We’re marking 10 years of feminist pot-banging by shaking and stirring up type communities worldwide with a 400-page book (!!!). Designed by Tereza Bettinardi, Alphabettes Soup, each article is typeset in at least two different fonts by women and gender-diverse designers. It’s a type specimen. It’s a design odyssey. It’s a typographic feast. Take a peek at that delicious spine—Base Mono by Zuzana Licko in custom ASCII lettering. Is your mouth watering yet? Inside: 55 articles, essays, and interviews exploring the intersections of culture, language, business practices, technology, and typography. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about feminist type—and more. There are fewer than 100 pre-orders at 20% off—go snag yours now!