Women-owned, Vancouver-based, variable-first. @arcanetype.com makes fonts with real warmth — Tofino, Stornoway, Amberwood. Indie foundries like this are the future. https://thepunch.studio/foundry/arcane-type-foundry | https://www.arcanetype.com/

We're hosting a pre-launch party for our newest book! If you're in Vancouver, come meet author Meghan Kemp-Gee at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social on February 10 at 6pm. Snacks, non-alc drinks, and an exclusive comic preview of the book. RSVP here: www.crossandcrows.com/events/44904...

So a while ago one of my fonts was featured in this newsletter so I checked it out. Long story short, it’s thoughtful observations like this that remind me of the old internet and take me back to a time where I had more real thoughts and conversations.

Ooof. Feeling this article hard. “Heavy projects are the lifeblood of creative fulfillment — and creative longevity.” www.workingtheorys.com/p/make-somet...

Happy day that snow gets added to a bunch of video games day!

Join us on Monday 17 November at 8pm for a 60-minute online talk. Type designer Chris Skillern, a Cherokee Nation citizen, will discuss the Typotheque Cherokee project, which is the culmination of over two years of in-depth work and research. Join the club for free. www.typotheque.com/club

Great stuff happening in the latest @glyphsapp.com release! Also, I love how entertaining the release notes are 😂, so many little gems like "...And if you understood what this means, you are probably that guy who created and sent us that edge case in the first place." glyphsapp.com/news/glyphs-...

For my Vancouver followers, I’ll be speaking at Type Brigade No58 on Oct 16th! Also, if you are not in Vancouver, you’ll be able to catch the recording after! www.meetup.com/typebrigade/ Registration for this event is free! Come hang out and learn more about letters!

I feel like this chart applies to discourse about most things (not just limited to discussions around AI)—it’s a good reminder to think about how you are discussing things with folks around you.

Good new name for a good type foundry: @arcanetype.com www.arcanetype.com/articles/arc... I'm using their Avona Serif, perhaps my favourite typeface, in my upcoming game. www.arcanetype.com/fonts/avona-...

New look! This name change is coinciding with the foundry’s 5th birthday and to celebrate, I thought I would confuse everyone about my identity (I joke, I joke). Moving forward, we will be called Arcane Type Foundry and we believe fonts are magic!

And for the A type folks, organized beads! 😬

Been making a lot of melty beads (or fuse beads, perler beads, Hama beads). I am getting better at ironing them evenly 😅

Sometimes you are just happily working on a typeface and it looks at you funny.

Points for creativity!

Sometimes other people make cool things and I wonder why I didn’t make a similar cool thing that I had an idea for but haven’t got around to it yet. Then I realize they are a team of 12 people and I am just me. Wish I could do that “mirror image” spell and my copies could all work for me.

We’re are launching an independent industry-wide survey for font users. We want to hear about your experiences: What works? What’s confusing or frustrating? What would you change? Your answers will help us decide how licensing works within the Fontstand Cooperative. fontstand.com/survey

Mother’s Day gift from my boys—time to be the big bad and slay all the adventurers in town!

Canadian Type Designers and Foundries! I made a list on my blog—if I missed you or someone you know, let me know! www.alannamunro.com/articles/can...

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My grade 4 kid needed to type out a final copy of the story he wrote and I can’t let him hand it in without proper hanging punctuation 😬😅🧐

People really want to early vote in my neighborhood today 😅 I have waited for nearly 3 hours now 🫠 but now that I’ve invested so much time, I gotta see it through!

And another visit to my bird friends and tropical flower friends at the Blodel Conservatory

Spring flower explosion 🌸💥

In my typography class this week, I play-tested a little combining type game where I made them all “become” a typeface and speed-date each other to find a good match. It was a blast.

This is amazing! @fontsinuse.com is such a great resource and I’m so happy to see it continue to grow!

Since we do not have an official Bluesky account for Type Brigade I would like to invite my Vancouver followers to our next event on April 10! meetup.com/typebrigade We have two amazing type related talks to look forward to from @kalapi.bsky.social and @keeponcreative.bsky.social!

Live type design on Twitch! Going from about 8:30-10pm pacific. Twitch.tv/alannamun

✨ Fonts are magic ✨ do you agree? Tell me why or why not. Printed with 2 colour Riso on white confetti paper.

A very special font release! It's a handwriting font based on my Grandfather's writing from 1955, when he was writing love letters to my Nana. My grandfather recently turned 99, and I wanted to celebrate by making this font for him, but it's so pretty not to share, so it's available on my site now!

The latest article is about setting Indigenous Land Acknowledgments with typographic respect: www.alannamunro.com/articles/the...

Someone asked if I could make an RSS feed for my blog, turns out all I had to do was flip a little switch 🙃 For those who like RSS: www.alannamunro.com/articles/rss.xml

It’s back! This will be the 3rd annual Fontathon (I think after three years we can consider it an annual event!?) and I am very excited to be watching and streaming live type design from March 8-9!

Recently got a Nikon Z50II after years without a camera (other than the one on my phone). My D80 broke about 5 years ago and I just kinda stopped taking photos, which was weird because I’ve been the one who takes photos since high school. Anyway, now I want to take photos every day, here’re a few.

Tracing some handwriting. Now to add features like swashes and ligatures for slightly more variation.

Early Christmas present from my dad, he built a nice big bench for the dining area! I gave him a quick sketch and some dimensions and he made it a real thing. Plus extra storage in tiny apartment, yes please!!!

Alanna Munro’s Formulate font family was made through a study of tidy handwriting and is intended as an update to the traditional ‘educational handwriting font.’ fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/alanna...

My kids need some extra help with writing so I made a club to make writing practice sound fun and cool. Here’s a little doodle of a logo to make it feel real.

Oh hai! For more context than my little bio, I'm an independent type designer running Alanna Munro Type Foundry. I'm on a mission to make everyone I meet into a Letter Nerd because I think letters are heckin' cool! For serious though, I teach typography because it's a really important part of design

Definitely impulse-preordered the limited edition Daggerheart game from Critical Role… who wants to play with me when it arrives next Spring 😅

I've been searching for an alternative to Sticker Mule (you can look up the reasons why) but it has proved difficult to recreate the print quality and shape I want. Tried 3 other places so far and it looks like @jukeboxprint.bsky.social wins! The print quality is actually better than the mule place.

I would like to cast, "download a free trial of my fonts!" It's really easy to install my fonts for free so you have them right in your font menu when you are looking for the right font for your next project: alannamunro.com/trial-fonts

Amberwood in use, spotted at the local kids bookshop! It’s a slightly modified version of Amberwood but I should probably add these not-so-tall styles at some point. More amberwood: alannamunro.com/fonts/amberwood

What a big win for the Haíɫzaqv community towards their language reclamation and revitalization efforts! It is an honour to collaborate with Heiltsuk Revitalization in partnership towards efforts like this that benefit the community. heiltsukrevitalization.com/unicode/

New Release: Stornoway! Aren't high-contrast sans serifs just the coolest? But they are not super great for text so I added a contrast axis to take that contrast down low (Stornoway Low) for use in text! Stornoway is a beautiful, functional little powerhouse ❤️

How much “faking it” needs to happen before the “making it” part happens? Asking for a friend.

An accurate description of kerning 😂🧐🥹

I used to use the blue bird place to announce when I was doing some live type design. I’m throwing a little online party tonight to celebrate my new website, and new typeface. Bring some drinks and snacks, come in your PJs—it’ll be a fun, chill time. twitch.tv/alannamun

I’ve created a type foundry starter list if you’re looking for more people to follow. go.bsky.app/CvnALNW

Do you ever associate an album with a creative project because you listened to it a lot while working on said project? I’ll go first: Stornoway is my brat typeface. Pretty much only listened to brat while making it.