Today, an awesome artist shared their website with me, and I had a little 'aha' moment - Mighty Mono's been out for three months, and I haven't said a word about it yet! 😅The journey of this typeface started during my master's research project at RMIT, where I focused on designing Vietnamese diacritics. Since then, I've expanded the entire family – thanks in part to the extra time the pandemic gave us (who didn't have more time during Covid, right?) and with invaluable feedback and support from other talented type designers and friends!
And now, thanks to @moderntype_ , Mighty Mono is out there for everyone to license! 🛸 Can’t wait to more about the process and the story behind Mighty Mono in my #typetuesday journal (if I can ever stop procrastinating and start writing)! 😄
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‘Font Việt hoá’ is often defined as (unofficial) fonts modified from original fonts to support Vietnamese characters. If you search ‘font tiếng Việt’ (Vietnamese fonts) on Google, most results will lead you straight to ‘font Việt hoá’. Growing up, they were part of my and many other Vietnamese people’s culture: somewhat necessary, somewhat accessible, somewhat unofficial, somewhat illegal, but completely fascinating. And somehow, I get to do a PhD at @rmituniversity on it. More soon. 👀✨
Eyja in use by Studio Dobra @studiodobra for Virei, a road documentary by @gustavoimigrante .
Eyja by Thy Hà @mai_type . Available online at counter-forms.com.
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On 25 November Anaïs Ca Dao (@anaiscadao ) delivered a presentation about VIETNAM: THE COOKBOOK at the AGI Congress (@agigraphic@agi_open ) in HCMC, Vietnam. She talked all about the process of writing the book, from her in-depth research into the history of Vietnamese cooking, writing and testing recipes, and working with Phuong Bich Pham (@pbp_____1607 ) to travel the country and take the amazing photographs featured throughout the book.
She also spoke about working with us on the design of the book, and sharing some of our own research, inspiration and work that went into crafting it. We were incredibly happy to hear that Thy Hà (@mai_type ), who designed the typeface used throughout the book, was at the talk.
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Eyja in use by @zenobiaahmed for PRICK! Needlework Now exhibition at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2025.
You can license Eyja via @counter__forms 👀
Credits:
Photo 1, 2, 3 by Christian Capurro
Photo 4 by @dominichofstede
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drawing a backslant after releasing an italic is a must 👻
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my revival exercise drawn based on Lakeside Script by Charles E. Heyer for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler.
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Vietnamese diacritics feel like playing Jenga with your eyes closed? Those tiny marks that need to stack just right, but you’re not sure how because you don’t actually speak Vietnamese?
This September, I’m running a ‘Drawing Vietnamese Diacritics’ workshop with @typeelectives . We’ll figure out how these tiny but mighty marks work, how to draw and stack them properly in Glyphs, and how to keep them from crashing into each other by testing them in context. 🏎️
Whether you’re adding Vietnamese support to your typeface or just want to understand how it all works, come join me!
BYO fonts and I’ll share you everthing I know about Vietnamese diacritics (no promises I will stay on topic if someone asks about Vietnamese food 🤭)
Visit typeelectives.com for details and also check out other amazing workshops by my colleagues!
i have an obsession with backslant
i have an obsession with script
so i decided to do both
at the same time 🙃
in case you’re wondering, it’s a revival exercise drawn based on Lakeside Script by Charles E. Heyer for Barnhart Brothers & Spindler. and as you may notice, i haven’t had uppercase yet…
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Ây dà Eyja ~ Khuyến cáo các bạn đừng nên vừa làm phông vừa xem Rap Việt nhe. Vì vừa chỉnh spacing vừa phải liếc qua đọc subtitle tại mấy bạn rapper bắn nhanh quá xong mắt le lé luôn… Nói chứ đang mê @lowerkiaphaiko 🫶
