Illustration by Alexis Reid
Celebrating International Women’s Day
By Kate Beckwith
The business of type has been male-dominated from the start, but women have made amazing strides into the field over the last 100 years. Ten foundries founded by women call Type Network home, and our library includes typefaces from nearly 40 talented female designers… and counting!
There are a number of women working behind the scenes to make TN possible. From helping customers understand their licensing options and driving sales (general manager Michelle Perham), to expanding the wider typographic knowledge base (office manager/content writer Kate Beckwith and social media manager Abigayle White), and from guiding our custom type design and consulting work (director of custom type Dyana Weissman) to generating awesome graphics (graphic designer Alexis Reid), these efforts pave the way for Type Network’s partner foundries to thrive and our custom design and consulting work to reach our clients.
We would also like to highlight the astonishingly underappreciated positions of quality assurance and engineering. These women contribute significantly to the high quality and design of typefaces in our library. Women like former vice president Jill Pichotta, our library manager M. Glenda Bellarosa, and freelance hinter Saga Söderback all ensure that Type Network’s custom and retail offerings are the best of the best.
Contrast Foundry is a global studio focused on designing letterforms in all their incarnations.
Elefonts designs retail and custom fonts in close collaboration with their clients to provide a unique typographic solution.
Matthew Carter is a type designer with fifty years’ experience of typographic technologies ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts.
After learning to design type at Font Bureau, Victoria Rushton started her own foundry where she has published beloved faces like Gautreaux, Embury Text, and Marcia.
Making letters, drinking wine, and eating cheese: Buenos Aires-based Fer Cozzi designs typefaces that live outside the box.
Dyana Weissman helps clients find their way to the logical, beautiful conclusion of whatever their creative challenge is.
Building on over thirty years of custom lettering, typography, and brand experience, Tipofili is the complementary foundry to Louise Fili Ltd, providing retail fonts and bespoke typography.
Kontour is a creative studio with a focus on type design. Founded by Sibylle Hagmann in 2000, the studio practices graphic, typographic, and type design.
Type-Ø-Tones is a typographic design company founded in 1990 by Joan Barjau, Enric Jardí, Laura Meseguer and José Manuel Urós.
Typeland is an independent design studio based in south London, specializing in multi-script design and custom fonts.
