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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

the amount of times RoboFont crashed on my face today is infuriating. and somehow I am still cool as a cucumber. go figure.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

that's the plan! but until I can implement it on my site, I am considering substack.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The Bear season 4 is a fucking master piece!

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Pooja Saxena @matratype.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🥁 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!

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

what are you doing this week? me: writing/editing recaps for all 6 months of my sprint experiment, and watching TypeLab talks 🤓

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 18/06/2025

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.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

have you ever forced yourself to work on a moody day just to trash every-single-bit once your head is straight?

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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 😁

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

not sure if I am lucky or not to be the one always explaining all things font-related—especially that, yes, there are humans creating them.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

for those of you who enjoy drawing numbers: what’s the secret?

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Mass-Driver @mass-driver.com · 05/06/2025

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:

Alphabet and numbers in a monospaced typeface (MD System Mono, specifically), arranged in a grid. In the bottom row, ‘$0’ (zero dollars) is highlighted in bright red.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"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.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

the bliss of simply copy/pasting 336 glyphs from sans to serif!

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I honestly didn't expect drawing arrows would be such an ordeal.

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Elliot Jay Stocks @elliotjaystocks.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Current status: watching Future Fonts’ HyperTalks livestream:

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HyperTalks 3.0

YouTube video by Future Fonts

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

wish me luck with the next 500+ glyphs per master and the 2 display styles I have yet to start!

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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?

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I'd add Comma Sans to the list 😉 ilovetypography.com/2025/04/22/l...

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

have you tried mate tea instead of coffee? I brew my own (quite strong) and drink it iced, mixed with lemonade, in the morning. one large glass, and I am good to go!

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

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!

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

is it just me or this week is pretty depressing?

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

finishing up a 14 style font family that’s been in development for *checks notes* eight years 🫠

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I reckon it's related to their Hindu-Arabic origins, which follow a reverse contrast that we force into Latin parameters and then make it italic. but in my case, the doubts are stylistic. why did I make these so angular? Flavia from the past was into something, so I will just push forward 🫠

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

seriously questioning my choices when designing this set of figures.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

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.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

how’s your weekend going? it’s 9pm on a saturday and my dog just rolled in horse poop 💩

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

FINALLY! well done Nadine Chahine.

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Álvaro Franca @naipefoundry.com · 13/02/2025

Getty Images is sharing tons of high resolution art without usage limitation. Here's everything they have with "calligraphy" in the keywords www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

Manuscript Illuminated initial of a letter N with a scene inside. The scene shows a man seething his sword shortly after beheading another man shown on the ground, the cut off head has a halo. Five other men in helmets look at the scene

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I just realized I'll hit the 5-year mark in the summer of '26—time to start planning. a party sounds perfect!

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

congrats on all you have accomplished so far! cheers to many more years ✨

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

@alvaroefe.bsky.social did something along these lines for a custom project if I remember correctly.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

María Ramos’ invitation to write for alphabettes.org was the perfect opportunity to kick off my "best of 2024" series, and the first up is Stringer by Emily Klaebe—in English and Portuguese, as always. www.alphabettes.org/font-reviews...

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Font Reviews 2024: Stringer | Alphabettes

Font review of Stringer, a typeface family designed by Emily Klaebe and distributed by Order Type Foundry

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

the beauty of making a 105-page proof doc with absolutely everything you drew (in context, of course) is to realize how far you have come ✨ and most importantly—I am almost DONE with this FONT! 🙌

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Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Brilliant thread on getting through the days ahead as sanely and constructively as possible, from a combat soldier's spouse:

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

thanks tiktok for telling me about The Day of the Jackal. 10/10 series, watched all 10 eps in 2 days!

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

is this a sign to add Cyrillics to ZC Casual? 🤩 thanks for the inspo @presentcorrect.bsky.social.

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Flavia Zimbardi @flaviazim.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

the only way of working in Rio during peak summer: shades 80% down, AC on max, don't leave the room.

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