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Alphabettes: It's Time to Act
A manifesto by Alphabettes dated June 14, 2020 that was hotly debated on-line. Published in the wake of George Floyd's brutal murder and the failure of the orange presdident to condemn racism, it is a call to action. Their recommendations include the condemnation of racism, the need to diversify educators, students, and curricula, and two other items that caught some attention. They argue that we need to stop using the term "non-Latin": It is exclusionary, and loaded with bias. The single item that drew most in most reactions was this: We need to discontinue the practice of designing for scripts we did not grow up reading and writing for custom/client projects. Somehow, the last point seems to suggest to go back to putting people in labeled boxes, where instead, we should strive for an equal world without borders and passports. Additional responses by Nicole Dotin, Behdad Esfahbod and Tanya George are noteworthy. Alphabettes is a group of about 250 women in type design, started through the joint effort of Indra Kupferschmid and Amy Papaelias in 2015. |
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