#Fontbook digital typeface compendium free

Leslie Fienberg, a who was a typesetter before a writer documenting queer/trans* experience, reminds of what “has not yet been written” on the front of the facade. Windows are added to the building's simple, Brutalist form to ensure a level of transparancy that mirrors the form and values of the Badass Libre Fonts website. The former deposit box is converted to a mailbox, and a typographic mural activates the side of the building facing the art school MICA.

#Fontbook digital typeface compendium free

The concept includes a space that is free and open - because space is a resource - in which the public can modify material by screenprinting typefaces onto it. How do those values and resources become physical?

Badass Fonts is free, feminist, open-source, and exists only online.

Jérémy Landes, type and graphic designer, Studio Triple, Velvetyne Type FoundryĬan a building be a type specimen? In this concept, I (digitally) installed the collection Badass Libre Fonts by Womxn, a project of Loraine Furter, in Baltimore’s brutalist KAGRO building. More fonts by womxn (all sorts of licenses): To support the designers, you can plan in the design budget of your project some money to donate to the designer directly, commission them with custom font designs, invite them to give a lecture and spread the word about their great designs! They are generously published for free, feeding an ecosystem of sharing and collaborations.

These fonts are shared under Free, Libre and Open Source licenses, which allow anyone to use them, modify their design, contribute more glyphs or styles to their non-nuclear families, build upon them and redistribute them further. Created in 2018, this collection aims at giving visibility to libre fonts drawn by womxn designers, who are often underrepresented in the traditionally conservative field of typography.