Visit at @letterformarchive !!!!!
That place seemed to be already wonderful from its online presence, but once you are in there in person, it is so amazing it is really hard to leave!
On first pic: most happiest @rafaeldietzsch 🤣
Second: @stewf and Rob Saunders showing off the collection of hand painted movie posters titles 😱
Third and fourth: the Archive has recently received a superb collection of Chinese typefaces and sign painting manuals from the early 20 to mid 20 century, gathered by @synopticoffice . Such a great and generous donation!! These are super rare!!! 🤩🤩🤩
I still can’t believe that I’ve been invited to give a talk at Face/Interface conference this year.
It is organised by @stanfordsilicon , with @firstgenprofessor and Audrey Gao.
I presented my project @words_of_type to a prestigious audience in a even more prestigious environment (or is it the other way around? 🙃), which has never made me more nervous. But many kind hearts came to tell me how good my talk was 💖🫣
This conference is a great mix of talks about linguistics, history, research, and… typography!
A great one to follow and to attend whenever the next edition will come!
How much does it cost to produce a Chinese typeface?
How long does it take?
And WHYYY?
Find out the answers to those (much asked) questions at my lecture THIS Saturday with @words_of_type !!
Link in bio
Chinese characters? Words? Letters? Ideograms? Symbols? Signs?...Drawings??
-> What is their correct name? 😅
-> How do Chinese language work? 🤔
-> And WHY are there SO many characters? 😫
-> How do you design a Chinese typeface? 😳
-> And how do you create a full character set?? 🤪
ANSWERS will be found at my lecture for @words_of_type
This Saturday June 22
from 2 to 4 p.m. CEST
Online, in English, 20€
Bookings at link in bio
THIS Saturday, June 22 -> I'll give a lecture about Chinese Hanzi typography for @words_of_type !!!
🕑 from 2 to 4 p.m. CEST
📍Online (Zoom), in English
💶 20€
📼 Recorded
Don't miss this opportunity to unveil the (typographic) mysteries around this writing system!
Book NOW via link in bio
SOON! Workshop on Lettering match-making from Latin alphabet to Chinese Hanzi!
2-days workshop
📆June 29 and July 6, 2024
⏰ from 2 to 6 p.m. CEST / UTC+2
💻 Online
🎤 English
💶 220€
To book your seat: link in bio!
Or at
Follow @words_of_type for everything related to the project! 🤓😎
I’ll stop making new posts in my personal account from now on.
Thank you!! 💖💖💖💖💖
Keep supporting the project via its instagram account. You can also support us even more by becoming a MEMBER!
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@words_of_type fun fact:
For some who might have noticed this:
In our first posts about the Thai lecture and workshop with @boom.type coming soon (BOOK YOUR SEATS - link in bio!), we wrote the word “Thaï” with an ï.
This is a stupid mistake from me to put this ï everywhere.
Why? In French, we write “Thaïlande” for the country, and “Thaï” for its language and script. The “a + i” combo as is is pronounced as one sound, and we use the ï to split the “a” and ”i” sounds.
But I didn’t even think that in English there is no such thing as the ï, and put it anyway in the English texts... 🤦♀️
Note to self: always double (or triple?) check with the speaker who knows the stuff better.
The encyclopedia of @words_of_type is in progress.
And we go even further towards making typographic knowledge more accessible and more diverse, with a series of lectures and workshops, starting in June ☀️
About typography and type design in specific scripts: Thaï, Greek, Devanagari, Hebrew, Hangeul, and more!
Revenues from lectures and workshops will help fund Words of Type project 💖
Stay tuned for more info!
Words of Type - UPDATE
Thanks to generous support (both mental and financial) from the type design industry, WoT moves on and is onto the serious phases of:
- design refinements 💅
- proofreading + translations 📚
- preparing additional illustrations 🌞and...
- building the website!!! 🔧
As ✨ WoT initial sponsors ✨, we can proudly name: @typotheque , @abcdinamo , @productiontype , @commercialtype , @type_together , @xyz_type , @nm_type , @kernsandcairns , @arrowtype , @letterror ,...
YOU can support WoT too!
As a foundry, type designer, publisher, you can sponsor some of the words made available for “adoption” 🥺
Your typefaces will be used in the illustrations, and there will be a link to your typeface page 😎
Send an email to [email protected] to get more information and details, and join the adventure!
More info will come soon for WoT Membership, so stay tuned! 👀
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