My copy of Manuscript Studies arrived today 🎉 It contains an essay on how medieval manuscripts ended up in @marshslibrary.bsky.social to accompany our new catalogue. Also available online: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56871
Vera
@infonta.bsky.social
Type design & calligraphy — www.infonta.com. The power of interpretation in type design. Historical material reimagined. Letterforms of all kinds, styles and applications. Culture, research, fun. Married, raising two bilingual kids. Cambridge, UK
Large letterforms in my "Broken" print are all made from actual collected bits of broken wood type (which I rehomed to a nice case & documented at enthusiastictype.com/brokenwoodtype & which has resulted in more folks printing w/it!). Print: store.wolfproofpress.com/product/broken-is-a-relative-term
Wolfproof Press 🐑🫸 🐺✨@wolfproofpress.com · 3d ago#ICYMI 🎨 "'Broken' is a relative term": Brokenness is relative to intended function-and who gets to define what that function is? A manifesto on disability & craft, the beauty of the well-used & self-identified. store.wolfproofpress.com/product/broken-is-a-relative-term
Satisfying this time, phew 🌿🥳 #fonts #typespecimen #typography #infonta #design #veraevstafieva
Anticipating the Wayzgoose, a gathering of letterpress printers — some prints we made with my Amalta wood type, even on top of my calligraphy, and also on top of my cut outs with Amalta "a" 😀 www.infonta.com/fonts/amalta Thanks to Elizabeth Fraiser for this precious time ☀️ #letterpress #typography
Vera@infonta.bsky.social · 6d agoThe York Wayzgoose is fast approaching! Next week, 6-8 August 2026. I'm going to give a lecture “Letters Old and New: Growing New Type Designs”. Also I'll do a live calligraphy demo with a broad flat brush, and take part in Suppliers’ Fair with my Alphabet Tiles and Letter Exchange materials ❤️
Posters for the Suppliers' Fair have just arrived! I'm baking my Alphabet Tiles next week 🥳 #typography #english #history #heritage #interpretation #uk #design #York #Wayzgoose
The York Wayzgoose is fast approaching! Next week, 6-8 August 2026. I'm going to give a lecture “Letters Old and New: Growing New Type Designs”. Also I'll do a live calligraphy demo with a broad flat brush, and take part in Suppliers’ Fair with my Alphabet Tiles and Letter Exchange materials ❤️
Vera@infonta.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt's a great honour and a nice surprise for me to be invited to speak at the York Wayzgoose! I look forward to attending all the lectures, taking part in hands-on activities, demonstrations, dinner, suppliers' fair... 3 days of pleasure! Early Goose tickets: www.thinicepress.org/wayzgoose-2026
Sunday: Named after the Sun Monday: Named after the Moon Tuesday: named after the Norse war god Tiw or Tyr Wednesday: named after the Norse god Woden or Odin Thursday: named after the Norse thunder god Thor Friday: named after the Norse goddess Frigg or Freya Saturday: Named after the planet Saturn
Saturday, [ⲥ]ⲁⲙⲃ[ⲁⲧⲟⲛ] Sunday, [ⲕ]ⲩⲣⲓⲁⲕ[ⲏ] Monday, ⲛⲧⲉⲩⲧⲉⲣⲁ = ⲥⲉⲗⲏⲛⲏⲥ Tuesday, ⲧⲣⲉⲧⲏ = ⲁⲣⲉⲟⲥ Wednesday, ⲧⲉⲧⲣⲁⲥ = ⲉⲣⲙⲟⲩ Thursday, ⲡⲉⲙⲧⲏ = ⲍⲓⲟⲥ Friday, ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲕⲉⲛⲏ = ⲁⲫⲣⲟⲇⲓⲧⲏ
METsky 🏛️@metsky.bsky.social · last wk.Ostrakon with Lists of the Days of the Week, 580–640 Class: Miscellaneous-Stone Culture: Coptic Medium: Limestone with ink inscription https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/474904
Mm, I wish I could spend some time there... in the forest (no mosquitoes please), near a lake... in a quiet... no, that's not possible yet 😅 but I've got the same journal though.
Letter Exchange@letter-exchange.bsky.social · last wk.Where do you read Forum? "Summer holidays 🌞 and time to do some reading and go in depth on topics of interest (and surprise! It has to do with letters 😄). Today I was reading the last issue of the Letter Exchange Journal, Forum!" LX full member, calligrapher Helene Jenssen 🌤️ 🇸🇪 #lettering #reading
Received a reprint. Slightly better. But still not perfect: there are pale lines here and there... Why?? I must have misunderstood their quality standards...
Vera@infonta.bsky.social · 2w agoThis could be a happy unpacking, but it's not. Every print has smeared ink 🫤
— Where do you read Forum journal? — I like reading mine in my studio, in my workspace, taking a break from designing my own letters to catch up with what my @letter-exchange.bsky.social Letter Exchange colleagues have been reflecting on; to note which exhibitions and talks are coming up,
Digging archives 😀 Picture from 2015, my calligraphy training sheets after attending Denis Brown's workshop My daughter gives some advice, recommended to write "g" and "s" many times in a row, it might help! she'll check next day #calligraphy #practice
For no reason, just an impulse, posting some portraits I drew — brush and ink, as always. Well, no reason to put them in a pile together, maybe one by one is better... also they are large protraits, 30x40 cm #blackandwhite #ink
one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoFWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
Alright, here I've got two street plates to compare. And probably that's the end of series, you must be tired of this 😬 #typography #lettering #streetname #uk
Curious monogram at one of the doors: I mirrored the image to see how it reads from inside. Lombardic T and... Greek Ф? Cyrillic Ф? or even something else? I just have no idea yet! #lettering #Huntingdonshire #fenstanton #uk
