Featured Creators
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Alanna Munro
Alanna Munro really loves drawing letters and will talk endlessly about type design if given the chance – it’s just such a fascinating topic! Her type designs are generally playful but can get pretty serious on a technical level because she’s a real nerd about how things are put together. Her live stream is usually a bubbly, chill hang out with the occasional dad joke and an open invitation to ask anything you are curious about.
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Arrow Type
Arrow Type is the foundry of Stephen Nixon, a type designer who loves finding ideas in the worlds of lettering, signage, writing, and pre-digital type, and adapting these into boundary-exploring type families and variable fonts. Stephen also finds joy in asking questions, investigating technical difficulties, and sharing the knowledge gained along the way.
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akimbo.black
"If type design is oxygen for designers, then I make poison gas." Well, if a live stream is meant to be helpful, linear, and high-production, his stream is a tangled ball of yarn. Process is messy, type is too clean, and designers fall down along the way—all of which is revealed and made "ok" by Akimbo's streaming and type design style.
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Pawel Schulz
Paweł Schulz works as a freelance designer focused on Type and Branding since 2018. He graduated in 2022 from University of Reading MA Typeface design course. The main drive for his designs is a curiosity and challange in variety of subjects. He has a cat called Gustav, which will most likely join the stream.
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SophiaTypeLove
As an independent typeface designer SophiaTypeLove enjoys working on new creative ideas, collaborations, scripts and helping others get their font families to the finish line. You can find her releases on Future Fonts and Google Fonts, and ask her anything about the most recent 🌈COLRv1 color font format🌈 Expect relaxing streams with chill lo-fi beats to keep you company like a warm cup of coffee ☕️
FAQ’s
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It’s a sprint-like design event held over 36 hours that focuses on a typeface or lettering project. Some like to use the time to start on a new project, others use it as motivation to continue working on an existing one. Whatever route you choose, you’re welcome to participate!
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Share your own work by tagging us @fontathon and using the hashtag #Fontathon2024. As the weekend progresses, we’ll share our favorites to the @fontathon Instagram and Threads pages.
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We encourage you to share your process! Finished pieces are okay too, but we think you’ll get the most out of sharing your work as you go.
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Fontathon will officially start at 12:01 am (00:01) GMT+0 on 3 February and end at 6:00 pm (18:00) GMT+0 on 4 February. While you can share your work outside of that time, any posts we share on @fontathon will be from that time period.
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Schedules will be made available closer to #Fontathon2024. We’ll share them on Instagram, Threads, and at fontathon.org