WoT News #4: 2025
First of all, let’s begin with good wishes for this new year, with lots of joy, happiness, good health, etc., whatever you wish for 💫
I. Launch of Words of Type encyclopedia 🚀
Words of Type will be presented at Face/Interface conference in January 17, 2025, and the encyclopedia is planned to be online, FINALLY, for this great occasion. Lisa will talk about its story, from how she got the idea of such project to how she built it, and will end it with the announcement of the website’s soft-launch.
In-person tickets to the conference are now sold out, but you can still join the livestream here!
II. WoT Conversation Ep.3
Next event will be our WoT Conversation Episode 3, on March 7th, one day before the International Women’s Day and the yearly Alphabettes 24H Hangout. The topic will be about women in typography, obviously. And we will very shortly share the guests list for this episode!
III. Lectures & Workshops
We begin our lecture series in 2025 with Irene Vlachou who will talk about typography and type design in Greek script (March 19 or 23, two sessions that are repeated for those who want to join the event live), followed by 2-days workshops.
Then, Kevin King (typeface designer at Typotheque) will talk about Indigenous language support and his design process on March 21.
In April 5, Rosalie Wagner will talk about font production and engineering process, followed by a 2-days workshop.
You can find more details and tickets here.
That’s all folks. For now… As I’m preparing a few more!
IV. General info
As always, you can follow Words of Type on Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and most recently: BlueSky. I’ve stopped all new posts on X.
You can also contribute to the project by becoming a member, and join our community where you can share your thoughts about the encyclopedia and connect with more WoT supporters! 💖
Thank you for following, reading, and for your support 💖
Cheers, and see you soon!