Alanna Munro (Arcane Type Foundry)

I am slightly embarrassed that it took me this long to try letterpress 😳 The workshop at Porchlight Press was very awesome and I’m pleased with how these card turned out! So glad we still have spaces to do these kinds of very analog, wonderful things.

Recently discovered that an adorable bun named Delphine lives a couple blocks away and is often hanging out in the front yard asking for scritches. Happy to oblige 😊

I led a lettering workshop tonight and I’m just so impressed with these beautiful greeting cards everyone made with only a couple hours of practice! 🙌

Fridge is refusing to be cold (you had one job!) so now I get to pretend I’m camping inside my house. Fingers crossed that after defrosting the fridge for a day it will come back to life 👻🤞

Women-owned, Vancouver-based, variable-first. @arcanetype.com makes fonts with real warmth — Tofino, Stornoway, Amberwood. Indie foundries like this are the future. https://thepunch.studio/foundry/arcane-type-foundry | https://www.arcanetype.com/

We're hosting a pre-launch party for our newest book! If you're in Vancouver, come meet author Meghan Kemp-Gee at @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social on February 10 at 6pm. Snacks, non-alc drinks, and an exclusive comic preview of the book. RSVP here: www.crossandcrows.com/events/44904...

Happy day that snow gets added to a bunch of video games day!

Join us on Monday 17 November at 8pm for a 60-minute online talk. Type designer Chris Skillern, a Cherokee Nation citizen, will discuss the Typotheque Cherokee project, which is the culmination of over two years of in-depth work and research. Join the club for free. www.typotheque.com/club

Great stuff happening in the latest @glyphsapp.com release! Also, I love how entertaining the release notes are 😂, so many little gems like "...And if you understood what this means, you are probably that guy who created and sent us that edge case in the first place." glyphsapp.com/news/glyphs-...

For my Vancouver followers, I’ll be speaking at Type Brigade No58 on Oct 16th! Also, if you are not in Vancouver, you’ll be able to catch the recording after! www.meetup.com/typebrigade/ Registration for this event is free! Come hang out and learn more about letters!

I feel like this chart applies to discourse about most things (not just limited to discussions around AI)—it’s a good reminder to think about how you are discussing things with folks around you.

Good new name for a good type foundry: @arcanetype.com www.arcanetype.com/articles/arc... I'm using their Avona Serif, perhaps my favourite typeface, in my upcoming game. www.arcanetype.com/fonts/avona-...

New look! This name change is coinciding with the foundry’s 5th birthday and to celebrate, I thought I would confuse everyone about my identity (I joke, I joke). Moving forward, we will be called Arcane Type Foundry and we believe fonts are magic!

And for the A type folks, organized beads! 😬

Been making a lot of melty beads (or fuse beads, perler beads, Hama beads). I am getting better at ironing them evenly 😅

Sometimes you are just happily working on a typeface and it looks at you funny.

Points for creativity!

Sometimes other people make cool things and I wonder why I didn’t make a similar cool thing that I had an idea for but haven’t got around to it yet. Then I realize they are a team of 12 people and I am just me. Wish I could do that “mirror image” spell and my copies could all work for me.

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

Mother’s Day gift from my boys—time to be the big bad and slay all the adventurers in town!

Canadian Type Designers and Foundries! I made a list on my blog—if I missed you or someone you know, let me know! www.alannamunro.com/articles/can...

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Good job! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

My grade 4 kid needed to type out a final copy of the story he wrote and I can’t let him hand it in without proper hanging punctuation 😬😅🧐

And another visit to my bird friends and tropical flower friends at the Blodel Conservatory

Spring flower explosion 🌸💥

In my typography class this week, I play-tested a little combining type game where I made them all “become” a typeface and speed-date each other to find a good match. It was a blast.

This is amazing! @fontsinuse.com is such a great resource and I’m so happy to see it continue to grow!

✨ Fonts are magic ✨ do you agree? Tell me why or why not. Printed with 2 colour Riso on white confetti paper.

A very special font release! It's a handwriting font based on my Grandfather's writing from 1955, when he was writing love letters to my Nana. My grandfather recently turned 99, and I wanted to celebrate by making this font for him, but it's so pretty not to share, so it's available on my site now!

The latest article is about setting Indigenous Land Acknowledgments with typographic respect: www.alannamunro.com/articles/the...

Someone asked if I could make an RSS feed for my blog, turns out all I had to do was flip a little switch 🙃 For those who like RSS: www.alannamunro.com/articles/rss.xml

It’s back! This will be the 3rd annual Fontathon (I think after three years we can consider it an annual event!?) and I am very excited to be watching and streaming live type design from March 8-9!

Recently got a Nikon Z50II after years without a camera (other than the one on my phone). My D80 broke about 5 years ago and I just kinda stopped taking photos, which was weird because I’ve been the one who takes photos since high school. Anyway, now I want to take photos every day, here’re a few.

Tracing some handwriting. Now to add features like swashes and ligatures for slightly more variation.

Alanna Munro’s Formulate font family was made through a study of tidy handwriting and is intended as an update to the traditional ‘educational handwriting font.’ fonts.ilovetypography.com/fonts/alanna...

My kids need some extra help with writing so I made a club to make writing practice sound fun and cool. Here’s a little doodle of a logo to make it feel real.