Font Licensing Mess

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Too often, we face the challenge of explaining font licences to students, customers, colleagues, or friends; it proves difficult every time. Back in 2023, we asked ourselves what could we do to improve our understanding of the topic and explain it better? We began collecting information from foundries, tons of data that is not only valuable for us but also for other type users, font makers, and educators. This article is a short introduction to the project and the information available in our website. We also post updates, from time to time, on social media.

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Font Licensing Mess

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Más de una vez nos hemos encontramos con el desafío de explicar qué es y cómo funciona una licencia tipográfica. La respuesta no suele ser fácil. Hace un par de años, en 2023, nos propusimos profundizar en el tema para poder explicarlo mejor. Empezamos recopilando información de fundiciones; un montón de datos que serían útiles, no solo para nosotras, sino también para otras personas que utilizan fuentes, crean tipografías o trabajan en educación. Este artículo presenta un resumen y algunos resultados de este proyecto de investigación, en el que hemos estado trabajando durante casi dos años. Podéis encontrar más información en nuestra página web y recibir actualizaciones en redes sociales.

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Happy 10th Birthday, Alphabettes!

Today is Alphabettes.org’s 10th Birthday! On our first birthday, we celebrated with cake. On our fifth birthday, we celebrated with wood type. Five years later, we’re still here and this time, we’re celebrating the milestone with a book! Our book.

Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type
384 pages
100+ contributors
55 original articles, essays, and interviews
120+ typefaces by women and non-binary people

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Feeling Seen, Eating Cake, Making Soup

It’s been over three months since the SEEN–Around the World Symposium, hosted at the LUX Pavilion and organized by Gutenberg University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany, April 9–11, 2025. Presented in a hybrid format, the conference brought together presentations and discussions with women and non-binary designers on topics related to typography, type design, and lettering. Rather than provide a detailed conference overview, here are some snapshots from the 3-day adventure, which included silly photoshoots with the Papa Gutenberg statue.

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