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1. WoT Conversation Ep. 5: Research in Typography, academia edition
September 5, 2025 — 2 PM CEST
With Sofie Beier, Ann Bessemans, Gerry Leonidas, Min-Young Kim, Éloïsa Perez, and Ferdinand Ulrich.

2. Type Makes Words and Words Make Type (lecture), by Lara Captan
September 19, 2025
Lara is a lebanese type designer based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She founded her type design studio Ama Foundry in 2023, and explores methods and techniques of Arabic type design while keeping the authenticity of Arabic script.

3. Introduction to Cyrillic (2-session workshop), with Maria Doreuli & Krista Radoeva
October 11 & 18, 2025
Maria is a type designer and the founder of Contrast Foundry, a typeface design studio based in San Francisco.
Krista is an independent typeface designer, based in Sofia, Bulgaria, specializing in Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts.
There are still a few tickets left!!!

4. Moving type beyong expression (lecture), with Maurice Meilleur.
October 25, 2025
Maurice Meilleur is a recovering political theorist turned graphic designer and design researcher and writer. He completed his MFA in graphic design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2015. He’s an assistant professor of graphic design at Iowa State University, where he teaches typography, computational design, design ethics and theory.

5. What, how many times, and when — Basic coding concepts with Python & Drawbot (2-sessions workshop), with Maurice Meilleur
November 1 + 8, 2025

6. KBI 2025: Wrap-Up
The 2025 edition (and the first!) of Knuth-Bigelow Incubator program is over!
To resume: 23 students, 8 time zones, 5 weeks, 10 sessions, fully online and free, all about learning the foundations of type design with a focus on digitally underserved script—and this year, on Decolonizing Latin, Arabic scripts, and South East Asian scripts.
With such limited time, and from distance, the goal of this program was not to teach students how to design and create a typeface from end to end, but rather to give them the keys to have a good start, which tools to use AND how to approach a typeface project.
More information should come out soon with details about the program!
This is a collaborative program built with SILICON at Stanford University and Letterform Archive.
And we are all super happy to announce that we are already working on its next edition! So stay tuned 👀

7. UPDATES ON WOT ENCYCLOPEDIA
Words of Type is progressing (slowly, but it does step forward!).
We’ve got new edits in English by Dan Reynolds, and Rosalie Wagner for words related to font production and engineering. Some of them are already published, the rest should come up real soon.
And we are working on the translation updates on the other languages too.
Some words on our waiting list are in progress as well, to grow the words list!

We are working on improvements of the website itself too, especially with a roadmap that gives you a view on the future steps. And members will be able to vote on which steps they wish to see appearing sooner!

8. WE NEED YOU
We always need help to get going. There are many options to contribute:
- membership if you’re an individual;
- sponsorship if you’re a type foundry;
- partnership (to sponsor our events) if you’re a company or type foundry;
- donations too!
Please reach out and/or share this to make it happen 💫

Thanks for reading, following, supporting, everything 💖

Lisa Huang