Hello Alphabettes network, Alphabettes Soup contributors, and Alphabettes Soup mailing list subscribers,

On April 1, I traveled to Gráfica Maiaduoro in sunny Porto, Portugal to hold the very first printed and bound copy of Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type: a 2.4-pound, 400-page beauty. We held a soft launch party on Thursday, April 2 at the publisher Bikini Books HQ. Thank you to everyone who attended, bought a copy, ate some cake, and danced. Many, many thanks to “book doula” / publisher Nina Paim and family for being the hosts with the mosts 💚.

The book is arriving in physical and virtual bookstores around the world, including Draw Down Books, Swipe (Toronto), Tique (Antwerp), and Perimeter Books (Melbourne). If you spot a copy in the wild, send me a photo!

Several soft launch events also took place in May:

In Portland, Oregon on May 12, Alphabettes Soup book designer and typographic chef Tereza Bettinardi shared her work and process as a PSUGD Kemeny Lecture Series speaker! Books were sold by Volumes Design Library where there are still a few copies available.

In Brussels on May 26, Alphabettes Soup author Garine Gokceyan organized an amazing event, Without A Center, With Many Symposium, which included talks by several Alphabettes Soup contributors, and a soup-lunch launch!

At ATypI Stanford on May 27–30, the Letterform Archive sold [out of] books during the conference. Laura made beautiful bookmarks featuring some of her Alphabettes headers as takeaways. Swoon!

This month, we’ve got several other events cooking:

In Berlin on Friday, June 12 (yes, today or tomorrow, depending on when you open this email), at A-Z Presents Countersession #8, join publisher Nina Paim and Alphabettes Soup authors Sol Matas, Tanya George, Zainab Marvi, Caro Giovagnoli, and more. Books will be available for sale, get them while they’re hot 🔥!

In New York on Friday, June 26, at the Typographics Festival hosted at Cooper Union, I’ll be giving the talk, Care and Complexity: Recipes for Alphabettes Soup. Books will also be available in the public Book Fair all weekend (or until they sell out🔥).

On Saturday, June 27 in NYC, join me and many authors and contributors to celebrate the book’s launch with a party at the Type Directors Club. It’s free but RSVP is required. There will be cake, of course 🍰💚📚!

📍 We’ll share future events in the Fall and beyond again soon. Want to host an Alphabettes Soup book event in your city? Reach out ([email protected]) and let’s make it happen.

💕 Finally, thank you again to all of our sponsors, individual donors, and pre-orderers. Your early and ongoing support helped us bring this pot to boil 💕.

xo Amy

Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type celebrates the Alphabettes network’s decade of typographic pot-banging and community building. Featuring articles, interviews, typefaces, and lettering by more than 250 women and gender-diverse individuals from around the world, this book is a potluck for challenging dominant narratives and inspiring future decentralized design networks.

Organized and edited by Amy Papaelias

Copy and line edited by Caren Litherland

Designed by Tereza Bettinardi

Published by Bikini Books, 2026