Flavia Zimbardi
@flaviazim.bsky.social
Entrepreneur and Type Designer
Building community → Women in Type
Licensing fonts → http://flaviazim.com & @futurefonts
Creating content → Contraforma 💌
Building community → Women in Type
Licensing fonts → http://flaviazim.com & @futurefonts
Creating content → Contraforma 💌
the amount of times RoboFont crashed on my face today is infuriating. and somehow I am still cool as a cucumber. go figure.
July 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
the amount of times RoboFont crashed on my face today is infuriating. and somehow I am still cool as a cucumber. go figure.
writers (amateurs included), what's your preferred archiving method? I mean, do you save a copy of everything? How/where? I'll soon move my newsletter(s) out of MailChimp and am wondering if I should back up the WiT reviews, interviews, and more reflective content.
July 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
writers (amateurs included), what's your preferred archiving method? I mean, do you save a copy of everything? How/where? I'll soon move my newsletter(s) out of MailChimp and am wondering if I should back up the WiT reviews, interviews, and more reflective content.
The Bear season 4 is a fucking master piece!
June 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Bear season 4 is a fucking master piece!
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🥁 Welcome INDIA STREET LETTERING, the book! 🥁
I’m working with @blaft.bsky.social to bring together my documentation of letterforms from India’s cities into a 200-page hardcover full-colour book.
Support the project on Kickstarter ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... I promise it’ll be amazing!
I’m working with @blaft.bsky.social to bring together my documentation of letterforms from India’s cities into a 200-page hardcover full-colour book.
Support the project on Kickstarter ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... I promise it’ll be amazing!
June 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🥁 Welcome INDIA STREET LETTERING, the book! 🥁
I’m working with @blaft.bsky.social to bring together my documentation of letterforms from India’s cities into a 200-page hardcover full-colour book.
Support the project on Kickstarter ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... I promise it’ll be amazing!
I’m working with @blaft.bsky.social to bring together my documentation of letterforms from India’s cities into a 200-page hardcover full-colour book.
Support the project on Kickstarter ➡️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla... I promise it’ll be amazing!
what are you doing this week?
me: writing/editing recaps for all 6 months of my sprint experiment, and watching TypeLab talks 🤓
me: writing/editing recaps for all 6 months of my sprint experiment, and watching TypeLab talks 🤓
June 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
what are you doing this week?
me: writing/editing recaps for all 6 months of my sprint experiment, and watching TypeLab talks 🤓
me: writing/editing recaps for all 6 months of my sprint experiment, and watching TypeLab talks 🤓
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Fonts regularly take multiple years to make, and developing a small typeface family can easily cost $50k.
Fonts regularly take multiple years to make, and developing a small typeface family can easily cost $50k.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Despite the technological revolution the book business is healthy and generally stable. People still buy A LOT of books.
Despite the technological revolution the book business is healthy and generally stable. People still buy A LOT of books.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re really not clear on what religion IS. At all.
We’re really not clear on what religion IS. At all.
June 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Fonts regularly take multiple years to make, and developing a small typeface family can easily cost $50k.
Fonts regularly take multiple years to make, and developing a small typeface family can easily cost $50k.
Reposted by Flavia Zimbardi
The TypeLab schedule is live on this page 2025.typographics.com/typelab/ now. Grab your free tickets and join TypeLab online and/or in-person June 25–29
TypeLab – Typographics 2025
The TypeLab at Typographics 2025 will host a series of informal workshops, demos, interviews, experiments, and more. TypeLab events will be a split across multiple days and platforms, with a combinati...
2025.typographics.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
The TypeLab schedule is live on this page 2025.typographics.com/typelab/ now. Grab your free tickets and join TypeLab online and/or in-person June 25–29
as technology evolves, and consequently the way we make & use type, font licensing is probably the one aspect of the industry that has been stuck in the old ways the most. help us figure out what needs to change.
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
fontstand.com/survey
June 11, 2025 at 6:09 PM
as technology evolves, and consequently the way we make & use type, font licensing is probably the one aspect of the industry that has been stuck in the old ways the most. help us figure out what needs to change.
have you ever forced yourself to work on a moody day just to trash every-single-bit once your head is straight?
June 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
have you ever forced yourself to work on a moody day just to trash every-single-bit once your head is straight?
ladies and gentlemen, we have reached 450 glyphs x 6 masters (upright & italic)! now onto more testing/polishing, kerning, and promo images... LygiaSans v0.4 incoming 😁
June 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ladies and gentlemen, we have reached 450 glyphs x 6 masters (upright & italic)! now onto more testing/polishing, kerning, and promo images... LygiaSans v0.4 incoming 😁
for those of you who enjoy drawing numbers: what’s the secret?
June 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
for those of you who enjoy drawing numbers: what’s the secret?
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Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole!
...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.
🧵 A thread:
...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.
🧵 A thread:
June 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Maybe you’ve heard: every font is free! Since fonts aren’t subject to copyright, you can legally ‘pirate’ them if you use a specific loophole!
...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.
🧵 A thread:
...except that’s not really true. I’ve seen this claim repeated quite a lot recently, and it’s missing some pretty important nuance.
🧵 A thread:
"the sooner you accept that it's going to take longer than you want, the sooner it happens faster than you expect."—wise words by @alexhormozi.bsky.social. basically the pep talk I've been giving myself since january.
May 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"the sooner you accept that it's going to take longer than you want, the sooner it happens faster than you expect."—wise words by @alexhormozi.bsky.social. basically the pep talk I've been giving myself since january.
the bliss of simply copy/pasting 336 glyphs from sans to serif!
May 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
the bliss of simply copy/pasting 336 glyphs from sans to serif!
I honestly didn't expect drawing arrows would be such an ordeal.
May 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I honestly didn't expect drawing arrows would be such an ordeal.
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Current status: watching Future Fonts’ HyperTalks livestream:
HyperTalks 3.0
YouTube video by Future Fonts
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Current status: watching Future Fonts’ HyperTalks livestream:
I am about to cross (drawing/polishing) 158 glyphs over 6 masters for Lygia Sans. that's 948 glyphs in 3 months. actually, 1278—forgot to count the revisions on its serif counterpart.
April 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I am about to cross (drawing/polishing) 158 glyphs over 6 masters for Lygia Sans. that's 948 glyphs in 3 months. actually, 1278—forgot to count the revisions on its serif counterpart.
this is the first year in a while (since 2020?) that I see a bunch of friends and people I admire posting about TDC certificates. have they made a comeback?
April 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
this is the first year in a while (since 2020?) that I see a bunch of friends and people I admire posting about TDC certificates. have they made a comeback?
amidst loads of crap ai generated content, the type industry seems to be swimming in the opposite direction, producing great articles, interviews, newsletters, etc... making me miss writing more frequently. but I promised this first semester would be for font production only. focus, Flavia. focus!
April 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
amidst loads of crap ai generated content, the type industry seems to be swimming in the opposite direction, producing great articles, interviews, newsletters, etc... making me miss writing more frequently. but I promised this first semester would be for font production only. focus, Flavia. focus!
is it just me or this week is pretty depressing?
April 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
is it just me or this week is pretty depressing?
yeeees!! 💥💥
Fontstand is becoming a co-op! At the Fontstand Conference in The Hague, we announced that we’re becoming a cooperatively owned and managed font distributor — with expanded licensing and services. Stay tuned as we create a more equitable, transparent and democratic model for font designers.
March 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
yeeees!! 💥💥
finishing up a 14 style font family that’s been in development for *checks notes* eight years 🫠
Finishing up work on one 32-page picture book that’s been in development for *checks notes* three years.
this isn’t a new observation at all but it’s crazy that you can take a year to make something that someone can binge in a day
March 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
finishing up a 14 style font family that’s been in development for *checks notes* eight years 🫠
seriously questioning my choices when designing this set of figures.
March 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
seriously questioning my choices when designing this set of figures.
back in 2019, I swiftly worked on 4 projects simultaneously. now, I am juggling 3 and losing my mind. perhaps it's just our memory playing tricks—highlighting achievements over struggles.
February 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
back in 2019, I swiftly worked on 4 projects simultaneously. now, I am juggling 3 and losing my mind. perhaps it's just our memory playing tricks—highlighting achievements over struggles.
how’s your weekend going? it’s 9pm on a saturday and my dog just rolled in horse poop 💩
February 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
how’s your weekend going? it’s 9pm on a saturday and my dog just rolled in horse poop 💩