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En un mundo donde más de 7,000 lenguas luchan por sobrevivir, Multilingüe 2025 emerge como un espacio virtual y abierto para construir herramientas que preserven la diversidad lingüística de América. Este encuentro gratuito, que tendrá lugar el 23 de mayo a las 9:00 AM (hora del centro de México), reunirá a comunidades indígenas, lingüistas y diseñadores tipográficos para dialogar sobre revitalización lingüística, diseño inclusivo y justicia digital.
This font review was originally written in Spanish. English translation below.
En el mundo de las tipografías, hay fuentes que intentan imitar la escritura a mano, pero pocas lo logran con la naturalidad y el encanto de Playpen Sans. Diseñada por la española Laura Meseguer y el equipo de Type-together encabezado por Veronika Burian y José Scaglione, esta fuente no solo captura la esencia de lo orgánico y lo humano, sino que también ofrece la precisión y versatilidad de una tipografía digital profesional. Playpen Sans es una solución ingeniosa para quienes buscan un equilibrio entre la espontaneidad de la escritura manual y la consistencia de lo digital.
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Above: Brooke Hull. “Overlay of Fat Letterform Illustrations on Type Anatomy Guide.” 2023. Type Anatomy guide image via Material Design. “Understanding typography.” nd. https://m2.material.io/design/typography/understanding-typography.html#type-properties
How can we disrupt design canons & fight fatphobia intersectionally through embodied typography?
This research began as I discovered and accepted my own fat, nonbinary body for the first time at the age of 23-24. I was in graduate school having to not only expand my knowledge about the systems within the world around me but having to understand how those systems impacted my own body. As a person who has been fat my whole life, I never accepted this reality until I learned about the system of oppression known as fatphobia.
Fatphobia, as defined by Dina Amlund, is “the name of the structure and the social hierarchy that place people of size, or fat people, beneath slender people” (2017).
Fat people face proven discrimination at work, in relationships, in healthcare, and in the media (Cooper Stoll 2019). Fatphobia, like all other systems of oppression, is intersectional (Crenshaw 1989), further harming folks who embody multiple systems of oppression, like race, gender, sexuality, and disability. While learning about these intersecting systems of oppression, I wanted to use design to relate these systems to my own body and bodies like mine. This is where the idea of fat typography began.
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