Thursday 22 October 2026 19:00 — 21:00 (start 19:30) at thonik line up —
Fanny Hamelin has worn many hats: type designer in a foundry, in a graphic design studio, as a freelancer, and now co-founder of her own foundry, Proof of Words. Each role gave her a different way of looking at letters. Working for foundries taught her the craft and the rigor of font production. Working with graphic designers and cultural institutions, on custom alphabets and lettering, showed her how typefaces live in real projects. Until she had everything she needed to build a project of her own. Fanny approaches letters through texture, with pixels and ornaments, and through history, with Baroque forms and scripts, always with a taste for the experimental. Fanny is going to take us through her journey, from her very first typeface to the realities of running a foundry.
— Fanny Hamelin is a French type designer based in Amsterdam. Since her graduation, she has been collaborating with type foundries, graphic designers and cultural institutions on typographic projects, doing type design and development. In 2023, she launched Proof of Words with her collaborator Léo Guibert. This type foundry is driven by their love for unconventional design and typographic curiosity. Her typeface projects are rooted in history, but are never strict revivals. She enjoys reinterpreting a style and adding her touch to it. She has a soft spot for the tacky and flamboyant typefaces of the 19th century. — In this talk, Fanny Hamelin shares her journey as a type designer, from her first typeface to the realities of running a type foundry. She begins with Savon, the first typeface she designed, and Selva, her first published typeface, before looking at the different paths, collaborations and personal projects that have shaped her practice along the way. She then talks about how she came to launch Proof of Words, and what she has learned from building a type foundry together, looking at both the technical and typographic side of the process. She showcases a few typefaces from the foundry’s catalogue such as Limerick and Garnier and discusses what it’s like to run a type foundry today: the opportunities it creates, the challenges it brings and how it continues to enrich her work as a type designer. —
Tickets & Locations
— Please RSVP via email (free) or eventbrite (€1+). The entrance is free thanks to our sponsors, that cover most of our expenses. To cover the remaining costs, we appreciate your donation. — thonik line up Grensstraat 47 1091 SW Amsterdam —
— A COSMOLOGY OF BLISS with editor Rowan McNaught A reading and introduction to the latest issue of OEI, A Cosmology of Bliss. The issue concerns Bliss (aka Blissymbols or Semantography) — an unspoken language made of countless little geometric symbols, many resembling the things they point to, others remaining more mysterious. Here we explore the project through archival material, biographical and speculative texts, and commissions by some thirty artists and poets who put the symbols to new and unruly use. — Sun 11 Oct, 17:00 free admission San Serriffe, Sint Annenstraat 30, Amsterdam — Glyphs 3/4 production workshop? Often we have been asked if we can recommend a good Glyphs workshop, either in person or online. So we’re thinking of offering our own. We could cover topics such as filling in hidden fields in Font Info, PostScript and TrueType hinting, or working with automation and scripts. The workshop would take place in the evening, and we would try to make it affordable for both students and professionals. — Please send us an e-mail, expressing your interest and what you would be most keen to learn. — bring your own book fair
Your favourite book fair in town! During the bring your own book fair over 200 publishers, authors, artists and makers will show and sell their (self-)published works of printed matter. We will share a table with Jan de Jong from De Buitenkant.
— Fri 16 Oct 14:00–21:00 to Sat 17 Oct 11:00–21:00
The last lecture with TJWP can be watched on Vimeo and MakerTube. Featuring a display typecace for RayBan, a Mercator revival and a new bespoke typeface in colloabortion with Blast Foundry LS#39 for the The Social Hub.
