Sarah Auches

Highlighting the incredible work from our Display Type class, Fall 2025! 🔥🔥🔥 Suyeko by Sarah Auches @type.btch Suyeko is a sans serif, italic typeface that takes cues from handwriting. It aims to make text feel warm, soft, and digestible for readers. The project began with a collection of the designer’s grandmother’s handwritten post-its and recipe notes, whose casual forms retain traces of the cursive style she grew up writing. Through experimentation and refinement, Suyeko explores how memory, preservation, and semi-cursive gestures can inform contemporary type design without directly mimicking handwriting. ✨✨✨ Sarah Auches (they/them) is a graphic and typeface designer supporting work that builds accessible resources in collaboration with advocates, organizers, and local communities across New York City; Lenapehoking, the unceded homeland of the Lenape people. They are developing a practice as a type designer and hope to expand their skills and knowledge with a focus on supporting Indigenous languages and writing systems of North America. 💙 Each Friday we’ll be highlight two projects from our class and you can check out the whole showcase on our website and instagram @displaytypedesign (Link in bio) Huge thanks to our students for their dedication and creativity! Special thanks to our Fall 2025 instructors Juan Villanueva @juan_kafka and Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_ We’re grateful to our office-hour guests Noah Lee @sokehstudio and Mariana Navarro @mariananavarro.lettering , and our guest critics Betsy Schuster @queertype.co and Bea Korsch And thank you to everyone supporting our scholarship program! Your generosity helps open doors for more emerging type designers.

First look at a little (6”x9”) book project for the lovely people of the Neighborhood Advocacy program of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri documenting 5 years of dedicated labor and love. Put Pastiche Grotesque by @btuttle and Actual by @fffffabifabiola to good use for this one ✨ Endless thanks to @leffell.koren and @audhubs for saving my buttt with rapid fire printing questions and moral support❣️And thanks to @noahjodice for connecting me with @ahhhna and the rest of the team 💜

Last one for now 💫❣️ Our plans for Alizeh are still developing, but keep a lookout for a new black weight coming soon. For more info on Alizeh’s future release and trial options, contact me at [email protected] Thanks for being here!

Work in-progress: Alizeh 🌱 Alizeh’s distinctly condensed forms includes playful ball terminals and delicate curves, giving the typeface a distinct combination of elegance and command for display applications. Its notched-ink traps breathe a contemporary feel into the original source.
 Expanded character set and language support in the works!

So excited to introduce Alizeh, one of our works in-progress in its latest form. Alizeh is a revival and ode to its original source of Leipzig-based foundry Schelter & Giesecke’s 1819 specimen catalogue. One of the earliest published “egyptiennes” of a German-speaking foundry, this source served as the first reference for Alizeh’s condensed profile. 

In tribute to Schelter & Giesecke’s history as part of the GDR’s only nationalized state-owned foundry, Alizeh’s specimen materials include artifacts from the years prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

New .ufo in progress ✨😌

HTML/CSS/JS ➡️ Photoshop ➡️ Instagram 🔄

Some silly colorful outtakes from first month with @lokimon check them out 💚

Working on something new ✨ Inspired by the cover type of The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (1913) by George Frederick Kunz.

made some cute lil collateral in @leffell.koren ’s branding studio for a hypothetical revival and lecture series held at the site of the Woolworth’s store in San Francisco opened from 1952-1997. The identity references the store’s layered histories and its lunch counter as a site of ongoing violence and contestation prior to and during the Civil Rights movement.

Drew some type from a stained glass window ✨

Was such a lovely time working on Alizeh, named for a best friend of a best friend, designed in @ben_kiel ’s typeface design class. A revival of a metal typeface first published in 1819, Alizeh is made to sit best on flyer and small scale poster materials.