Women in Type & Design | Resource Updated [2024]
“Feminism by definition is the believe that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes. There is no one country in the world where women can expect to receive equal rights. No country in the world can yet say that they have achieved gender equality” Emma Watson.
Fonts, Type & Women
This is an ongoing resource of fonts designed by women, as well as supporting material to learn more about female and non-binary graphic and type designers.
Second-half of 2023 font releases by women via Alphabettes.
Mid-year 2023 font releases by women via Alphabettes.
Retail fonts designed by women in 2022 via Alphabettes.
Women Type Designers Resources
By Elena Veguillas via Alphabettes.
By Elena Veguillas via Alphabettes.
First/early Female Typeface Designers
Thesis project by Laura G. C. Webber, 1977.
Uncovering the History of Early Women Type Designers
Lecture by Lauren Elle DeGaine via Letterform Archive.
Download a PDF file with a comprehensive list of women type designers by Hans Reichardt.
This section —part of The Malee Scholarship— gathers a selection of great typefaces designed by women from all over the world.
Mulheres na Tipografia | Parte 2
Written by Flavia Zimbardi via Recorte.
Mulheres na Tipografia | Parte 1
Written by Flavia Zimbardi via Recorte.
How many female type designers do you know?
Book by Yulia Popova, published by Onomatopee .This book aims to shine light on the work of women in type. Besides that, it should serve as an alternative educational material for people interested in type history.
Research project investigating visibility of female type designers by Yulia Popova.
Publication celebrating women in the type design industry.
Women in Type is a three-year research project undertaken at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication of the University of Reading between March 2018–November 2021. The project benefited from the support of the Leverhulme Trust as part of its Research Project Grants. The project is led by Prof. Fiona Ross with principal researcher Dr. Alice Savoie and post-doctoral assistant Dr. Helena Lekka.
By Alice Savoie hosted via The Cooper Union.
Guest researcher Anne Galperin reveals unsung contributions to a major sourcebook of mid-twentieth-century type design.
Recovering the Forgotten Women of Metal Type Design
By Bethany Qualls via Letterform Archive.
The Women behind Times New Roman
The contribution of type drawing offices to twentieth century type-making article by Alice Savoie published on Oxford Academic.
IG account showcasing the great work of Women in type design.
IG platform to collect and showcase typefaces designed by womxn.
Espacio seguro para el intercambio de conocimiento entre mujeres interesadas en el diseño de letra.
New Types: Three Pioneers of Hebrew Graphic Design Book
“Fransizka Baruch only created the font Stam, but also designed the font Schoken. She also created numerous logos that are still in use, or have been refreshed, such as Haaretz, Weizmann Institute, Tarshish Books, and many others” comment by Liad Shadmi.
Graphic Design & Women
Black Girls in Design aims to create a platform that would not only foster the needs of black women in Britain with backgrounds in Graphic, UX and UI design but also aims to create substantial awareness amongst the Black communities about these career options. Lack of visibility of such career choices has been one of the fundamental issues behind the disparity of diversity within the creative industries. We aim to deal with these barriers that are affecting the overall growth of black female designers in the UK.
Publishing experiments by women artists in Latin America, 1960-1990
Book curated by Mela Dávila Freire via Center For Book Arts. Curator Mela Dávila Freire presents her research process for the exhibition and publication at the New York Public Library in conversation with Silvina López Medin.
Women Designers You Should Know
Let’s redesign history by celebrating women. A podcast and video series created by Amber Asay.
Directory curated by the talented designer Gabby Lord.
Baseline Shift: Untold stories of women in graphic design
Book edited by Briar Levitt and published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Extra Bold: A feminist, inclusive, anti-racist, non-binary field guide for graphic designers
Book by Ellen Lupton, Farah Kafei, Jennifer Tobias, Josh A. Halstead, Kaleena Sales, Leslie Xia and Valentina Vergara. Published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Documenting the artwork of the Iranian Revolution by Dena Taiebat.
“What does a feminist graphic design history in the United States look like?”
Four Articles by Dina Benbrahim published on Alphabettes.
A podcast about female creativity, leadership and feminism by Hey Studio.
Aimed to showcase, celebrate, inspire women + gender expansive + non-binary creatives working in the design + creative industry.
Women in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the fifteenth century onwards. Printing History and Culture edited by Artemis Alexiou and Rose Roberto.
Antique, modern and swash, a brief history of women in printing
Book by Club of printing women of New York
Women in Graphic Design 1890 – 2012
Book by Gerda Breuer and Julia Meer illuminates the forgotten women who made substantial contributions to design by focusing on their merits and quality of work.
Designing Women is an initiative that aims to combat gender inequality in the design industry and highlights the impact of female-identifying, non-binary, and other persons affected by gendered issues in design via Readymag.
Founded by Lora Appleton, the Female Design Council (FDC) is the premier professional membership network and advocacy organization for womxn in design, architecture and the applied arts. The FDC’s mission is to advocate for equity and tangible gender parity in the design industries and provide access to professional opportunities for our members.
Tia knows what it’s like to not get paid – and it turns out she’s not the only one. What started as a small group designed to discuss non-payment issues quickly grew into the world’s largest community of freelance women. Freelancing Females is now a safe haven for all who identify as women to share their wins, loses, fears and knowledge in our ever-growing gig, project-based, and freelance economy.
Platform to amplify the visibility of womxn & non-binary poster designers.
IG account and WOI podcast.
Network to showcase and celebrate women designers.
Platform diversifying the creative industry. Founded by Jessica Walsh.
Mentorship program for women in design committed to improving gender equality in the design industry.
Independent content platform to champion gender equality through communications. Based in Naarm / Melbourne.
Founded in 2018 by Linh Diep, Assisterhood is making an impact as Australia and Aotearoa’s leading industry mentorship program for underrepresented communication professionals.
No matter your age, role, gender identity or where you are in Australia/Aotearoa, this program doesn’t discriminate.
Palestinian Feminist Collective
We are a Turtle Island-based body of Palestinian & Arab women & feminists committed to Palestinian liberation & beyond.
Invisible women in Australian Graphic Design
By Dr Jane Connory (Glover)
Making heroes of women in Australian graphic design.
A digital anthology of creative women’s stories of driving change for Melbourne Design Week. March 17 – 27, 2022.
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