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Women’s week

Celebrating highly crafted typefaces created by great women designers.

Noah Nazir
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Last edited August 31, 2018
ITC Handel Gothic
Odile
FF Ernestine

Let’s destroy the common notion that women type designers usually make ‘curly scripty kind of fonts’ for wedding invitations and the like. Join me in celebrating some of my brilliant fellow women designers who create wonderful and interesting typefaces for text.

safety
bureaucratic
Stay hungry, stay foolish

Handel Gothic is humorous and serious at the same time, a great combo.

The Handel Gothic™ typeface has been a mainstay of graphic communication for over 40 years - all the while looking as current as... Read More

chalet
conceptional
No cross railing lest suddenness happens

Odile is a charmingly odd typeface that works well in text.

winter
guitarfishes
Please present your octopus

Ernestine is humorous and serious at the same time, a great combo.

The premise for FF Ernestine came from the search for a versatile monolinear text face whose design could transmit seemingly opposite... Read More

Donald Handel, Nadine Chahine and Rod McDonald
ITC 2010
Sibylle Hagmann
Kontour Type 2010
Hrant Papazian and Nina Stössinger
FontFont 2011