WoT News #8
NEWS
Just as a proud shout-out, Words of Type has been presented at ATypI 2025 conference in Copenhagen. Follow ATypI to see when the recordings will be online.
And, Words of Type is a TDC71 Winner!!! 🏆💖✨
If you are in NYC, the exhibition and ceremony will be on May 13 (details to be found here). If you’re not, (like me) then the book should be out very soon ✨
EVENTS
Now, here is a list of upcoming events:
Check all details and book your tickets on our Events website.
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
Cyrillic script and typography (lecture + workshop), with Maria Doreuli & Krista Radoeva.
POSTPONED - NEW DATES:
June 21 (lecture), June 28 + July 12 (workshop)
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.
WE NEED MORE PEOPLE FOR THE CYRILLIC WORKSHOP!
Check all details and book your tickets on our Events website.
Legibility research from a non-Latin perspective — What we’ve learned from Thai loops (lecture), with Héctor Mangas Afonso.
May 16
Hector currently works with Dutch foundry Typotheque as their in-house cognitive researcher.
Check all details and book your tickets on our Events website.
Arabic script: Then & Now, with Kamal Mansour
July 3, 2025
Kamal is a linguistic typographer based in Palo Alto, USA. He is a technical advisor for companies and foundries about complex scripts and their digital representation.
Kamal’s lecture at WoT is part of the Knuth Bigelow Incubator program, with the lecture made opened to all.
Check all details and book your tickets on our Events website.
OTHER EVENTS
WoT Conversation Ep.4 — Multiscript, Multilingual, Multicultural
with Garine Gokceyan, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Liang Hai, Toshi Omagari, Morgane Pierson.
June 6
Donald Knuth & Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator 2025
We have dates for the program! June 23 to July 24, 2025.
We have the participants! From Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, and many many more.
We have the instructors, speakers, guest critiques, and special guests!
More information will be shared on social media and the next newsletter!
A (exciting) summer is coming 😎
Note:
In the previous newsletter, I started it with the following sentence: “Words of Type is now running its course.”
But a fellow reader (who speaks a much better English than I do) reminded me that something that is “running its course” means that it is close to its end… Which was obviously and totally not what I meant! This confusion comes from the French expression “qui suit son cours” which means (more or less) that something is “living its life.” Quirks of languages 🤪
Let me know if there are any lecture or workshop topics that you’ll love to attend!
Thanks for reading, following, supporting, everything 💖
Lisa Huang