Alphabettes Soup 2015-2025: Ten Years of Feminist Approaches to Type

Alphabettes Soup 2015-2025: Ten Years of Feminist Approaches to Type

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Edited by Amy Papaelias

With contributions by Alessia Mazzarella, Alice Savoie, Ana Moliz, Anna Srikitkul, Bianca Berning, Briar Levit, Caren Litherland, Carine Vadet-Perrot, Carolina Giovagnoli, Catherine Dixon, Catherine Griffiths, Chris Campe, Dina Benbrahim, Dafne Martinez, Dyana Weissman, Elena Veguillas, Evelyn Wh-ell, Fiona Ross, Garine Gokceyan, Indra Kupferschmid, Irina Koryagina, Joyce Ketterer, Joana Correia, Kaiya Warea, Karen Cheng, Kateryna Korolevtseva, Liron Lavi Turkenich, Liz De Luna, Lisa Huang, Lisa Maione, Mallory Haselberger, María Ramos, Maria Montes, Maria Paganopoulou, Maryam Golpayangi, Muk Monsalve, Naïma Ben Ayed, Nina Paim, Nicole Dotin, Nora Gummert-Hauser, Pooja Saxena, Romina Hernandez, Robin Mientjes, Sandra Garcia, Sahar Afshar, Sandra Morales, Shaqa Bovand, Sibylle Hagmann, Sol Matas, Sophia Tai, Susana Carvalho, Tânia Raposo, Tanya George, Taurai Mtake, Victoria Rushton...and more!

Designed by Tereza Bettinardi

30 × 21 cm, 320 pages, softcover

ISBN: 978-989-35859-6-2

FORTHCOMING SEPTEMBER 2025 💕 This book is coming together thanks to the generous sponsorship of the following companies in the design and type industry: Bizlet, Blaze Type, Contrast Foundry, Dinamo, DJR, Fatype, Frere-Jones Type, Future Fonts, Kerns and Cairns, Klim Type Foundry, Kontour, Lineto, Morisawa, OH no Type Co, Plau Design, Readymag, R-Typograpy, Swiss Typefaces, TypeTogether, Type Network, Typotheque, Universal Thirst, XYZ type.

💌 Are you a company interested in becoming a sponsor? Reach out to us at sponsorships@bikini-books.com. Are you an individual looking to support this project? You can donate directly here. All sponsorships and contributions will be acknowledged in the book.

🥣 Pour several cups of type designers, lettering artists, typographers, and graphic designers into an email thread. Sauté in hot feminist butter. Add a blog, conference meetups, online hangouts, virtual crits, and a mentorship program. Sprinkle a generous handful of friendship and dialogue. Let simmer for 10 years. Serve in a book form.

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Alphabettes Soup: 2015–2025 celebrates a decade of feminist approaches to type research, design, and creative community-building. The book blends key articles from the Alphabettes platform with original essays, exploring intersections between culture, language, business practices, technology, and type. It also includes interviews with Alphabettes members, visual histories, and reflections on past and ongoing initiatives. More than an anthology, Alphabettes Soup is a dynamic collection of voices and stories. The book is conceived as a type specimen, showcasing over 100 typefaces designed by women and non-binary individuals. Aimed at challenging dominant narratives in type history and contemporary practice, Alphabettes Soup seeks to inspire future generations to create their own decentralized design communities.

 

ABOUT ALPHABETTES

In 2015, amid intense discussions about sexism and gender diversity in the type industry, a conversation among a few internet acquaintances quickly expanded into a wide-reaching network of over 300 type designers, lettering artists, typographers, and design educators. With no financial support or organizational structures, Alphabettes was born. Since then, this decentralized network has published hundreds of articles, paired emerging type designers with mentors, and hosted numerous public events and critique sessions. Committed to promoting equity, Alphabettes advocates for diversity in type design at conferences, educational institutions, and throughout the industry worldwide.