WoT NEWS #6: Talk, Learn, Practise
Dear readers,
As you may have seen by now, Words of Type Encyclopedia has now started its life on the digital world! We are doing out best to improve it, but it takes time (and 💰).
Share your thoughts and comments (on email, on the community, anywhere you like).
If you want to do more than just that, you can contribute with a yearly membership. It starts at 25€ 🥹🙏
Now, a list of our events (so far):
Check all details and book your tickets on our Events website.
WoT Conversation Ep.3 — Women in Typography
with Marie Boulanger, Veronika Burian, Min-Young Kim, Amy Papaelias, and Alice Savoie.
March 7
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
Greek type design and typography (lecture + workshop), with Irene Vlachou.
March 19 to April 2 (Wed.) / March 23 to April 6 (Sun.)
Irene is a typeface designer specialised in Latin and Greek scripts, and expert in variable fonts.
🚨FREE TICKET ALERT🚨 One lecture + workshop combo (Sunday sessions) is offered to a student, to be selected from portfolio. Offer sponsored by Type Together. Send a link to your portfolio by March 9, and we’ll get back to you by March 10 (that is already our extended deadline, just for you, dear readers 💖).
Indigenous Language Support (lecture), with Kevin King.
March 21
Kevin is a typeface designer, typographer, calligrapher, and type researcher based in Canada, working at Typotheque.
Font Production, an introduction (lecture + workshop), with Rosalie Wagner.
April 5 to 19
Rosalie is a French type designer and font engineer based in Berlin, worked with Google Fonts, 205tf, among others.
Arabic type design and lettering (lecture + workshop), with Azza Alameddine.
April 7 to 17
Azza is a Lebanese graphic designer, typeface designer, and teacher based in Spain, working with Type Together.
Legibility research from a non-Latin perspective—What we’ve learned from Thai loops (lecture), with Héctor Mangas Afonso.
May 16, 2025
Hector currently works with Dutch foundry Typotheque as their in-house cognitive researcher.
Okay, that’s all folks. See you next month for more surprises!
Thanks for reading, following, supporting, everything 💖
Lisa Huang