Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type

This one* celebrates** a decade*** of feminist approaches**** to type research, design, and creative community-building. The book blends key articles from the Alphabettes site with original essays, exploring design culture, language, business practices, technology, and type. It also includes interviews with Alphabettes members, visual histories, and reflections on past and ongoing initiatives. Conceived as a type specimen, it showcases over 100 typefaces designed by women and non-binary individuals and it’s aimed at challenging dominant narratives in type history and contemporary practice. This one’s gonna inspire future generations to create their own decentralized design communities. A fantastic achievement. Also, it was copyedited by Caren Litherland. She copyedits our (recent) books—but not our website or emails. Our template for books specs doesn’t allow for a copyeditor credit, but we didn’t want to leave her out. Anyway, this book is a great service for all.

*By which we mean the book called Alphabettes Soup.
**With a book, though. Not with a party. Not everything that is celebrated is about parties.
***FYI: A decade is ten years. A century is 100 years.
****Those are approaches that treat women as equal. You might not know that they aren’t always treated as equal to men.