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Type and Gender Stereotypes
Here’s the deal with describing type or lettering as feminine or masculine: This is my simple request. If you already have an inkling about why this might be an issue and think it’s a reasonable...
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Some very sped-up drawing, for your vector-scrutinizing pleasure. My favorite parts, if you can catch them, are when I realize halfway through that the ascender tops are leaning the wrong way, and...
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Gingerbread Advent Calendar
This time four years ago, I was scrambling to finish the semester’s final projects in my senior year of college. In other words, highly suggestible to distractions. I was chatting with my mother on the...
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Make Those Connections
This is the transcript of my talk at Typographics last June about the making of my typeface, Gautreaux, edited for clarity in this medium. You can watch me in all my nervous glory here, but I wanted to...
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Dear Alphabettes: Who is a type master?
Dear Alphabettes, Currently I am a graphic design student, and recently I was working on a group project highlighting a “type master” in history. Much to my surprise, there were no women on the list of...
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Playing With the Glossier Play Logotype
I really like trying to reverse engineer the ways people have taken type into their own hands. Often it’s something simple, like adding an outline to make it heavier, or adding flourishes that don’t...
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Solidarity right now
Around this time last year, I accidentally got really involved in US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s unprecedentedly large texting program. When he suspended his campaign, 30,000 volunteers had...
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