Alphabettes

20 stories

AlphabettesLa familia Didactica I’ve also written about the type family Didactica in English. Follow any of the links below if you want to read about it: Y ahora, ¿qué voy a diseñar?

September 24

AlphabettesBehind the Tangent Superfamily: A Roadmap Full of Detours How we collaborated on an on-going generative type system. Deb: So, we want to write this article for Alphabettes, right? Saachi: Yeah, to talk about our process. How we actually built Tangent.

September 15

AlphabettesTangent Superfamily

September 15

Alphabettesabjadettes abjadettes by Sherry Muyuan He made with Illustrator & After Effects. It

September 1

AlphabettesUnrepentant Uncial Calligraphic Typeface (Unrepentant Uncial)

August 1

AlphabettesEclipse – WIP ECLIPSE WIP by Carine Vadet-Perrot Alphabettes Header.

July 15

AlphabettesSpencerian Revival WIP This is a revival of a Spencerian script, soon to be published with Blaze Type.

June 1

AlphabettesFit Arabic This carefully developed Arabic companion to the FIT family by Shar Afshar ensures consistency across the extended type system.

May 15

AlphabettesAlphabettes Soup is Served! Grab a spoon and get ready for some big SOUP updates! On April 1, Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type was printed and bound at Gráfica Maiaduoro in Portugal.

May 12

AlphabettesDidactica Cursive Typeface / Didactica Cursive / WIP by Sabrina Lopez

April 15

AlphabettesDevanagari Typography 101: A guide for typesetting with Latin Evolved from the Brahmi script, Devanagari is used to write Marathi, Hindi, Sanskrit, and Nepali, and remains an important Indic script used in South Asia and beyond.

March 31

AlphabettesOmbú Ombú is inspired by ABC books where letters function as illustrations, this typeface evolves from linoleum carving to digital design.

March 15

AlphabettesProcess behind Dukat: shaping letters and ideas side by side First ideas for the project emerged in the autumn of 2024. At the time, I was doing an internship at a French type design studio.

March 14

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo

One letter a week, starting soon.

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