For the past six years, Alphabettes has spent nearly every International Women’s Day doing what it does best: hastily dis-organizing a 24-hour online hangout across timezones and continents with a loose schedule that anyone on the internet was welcome to join. We’d take a virtual type walk around Mumbai with Tanya. We’d join Romina and friends in Mexico City for an 8M March with handlettered signs from her community poster-making workshops. We’d hear cool conference stories from Theresa in San Francisco. We’d chit chat in Spanish for an hour with Laura and Dafne and Caro. We’d say hi to pets and babies and make breakfast, lunch, and dinner together, all at once. In 2026? Instead of hanging out, some of us decided we’re hanging in. Or maybe, hanging on. We’re still here, but for now, it’s ok to hang up the internet for the day or hang out in other ways.
This International Women’s Day, I’ll be helping to bring a very hot soup to simmer. After two years of non-stop planning, writing, editing, organizing, emailing, type pairing, proofreading, and spreadsheeting, Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type, heads off to the printer very (very!) soon, after every tiny error has been uncovered in these 400 beautiful pages (🤞).
I could probably talk for twenty-four hours about each article (47!), interview (8!), typeface (115!), and header (252!) in the book. But not this year. I guess you’ll just have to read it yourself. Which reminds me: There’s still time to pre-order a copy (or two!) of Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type. It turns out, making really good books takes a lot of time, effort, and resources. We are so grateful to all of our generous sponsors and donors but we came up a bit short of our original financial goals. Pre-ordering this book directly supports independent, feminist design publishing and the work of women and gender diverse individuals in type. It also ensures you’ll have your very own copy to hang out with for years to come. And that’s not a bad way to celebrate International Women’s Day. Hang in there 💚.