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Scholarships available! If you’re ready to study type design but need financial assistance to take Latin One, apply for a scholarship! There are two and all you have to do is apply. Plus, the application is relatively simple so no excuses.

Is there a Latin One scholarship waiting just for you? You won’t know unless you apply.

https://practicaprogram.com/latin_one#scholarships

🔠 Latin One / Mechanics
📅 November 4–December 17, 2026
🕔 Weds @ 10:30a CST
💻 7 weeks · online course
Latin One is a 7-week online course through Practica Program, taught by me @nicoledotin and @solmatas. The course focuses on strengthening the fundamentals of typeface design — drawing, spacing, proofing, contrast, optical corrections, and learning to see your typeface as a system. You’ll need to bring a typeface already in progress, but it doesn’t need to be fully developed. The course combines pre-recorded lectures with one live feedback session per week.

#LatinOne #TypeDesign #TypefaceDesign #TypeEducation

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This month, three books landed on my desk within a few weeks of each other, and I ended up in all three.

Alphabettes Soup: Feminist Approaches to Type just came out to mark @alphabettes_org’s 10th birthday, edited by @amypapaelias and published by @bikini.books. I have a piece in it about Alphacrit, and about how organizing those sessions with @nicoledotin as part of @alphabettes_org eventually led us to found @practicatype. Reading it back next to the other 54 pieces in the book made me realize how much of what I do started as a conversation with one person before it became a program.

The book features copy and line editing by Caren Litherland, coordination by @paimnina, and design by @terezabettinardi.

Slanted #47—Digital Tools is also out, with an interview Lars Harmsen of @slanted_publishers did with @ameacute and me about @glyphsapp, called “Glyphs and the evolving practice of multiscript and variable type design.” @mariannapaszkowska and @azalam add their own perspectives in the same issue, so it ends up being less about one tool and more about how differently we all use it.

And then there’s the third edition of @yuuuuuuuuulia’s How Many Female Type Designers Do You Know? — I Know Many and Talked to Some!, published by @setmargins. I already had a copy, but Yulia made some adjustments for this edition. Thank you, Yulia, for sending me the new version—and for making the work of women in type more visible.

Three books, one month, and somehow all three are about the same thing from different angles: who gets to be in the room, what tools do to the way we think, and what happens when you keep talking to the same people long enough that you end up building something together.

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Barcelona, last year — Ramón with Nicole and Valerio.
Type design is about people as much as it is about letters.

Ramón’s story is now featured in the latest edition of Type of Humans.
A project about structure, restraint, and the challenge of designing a neutral grotesk.

Applications for Latin Two close this Sunday.

💌 Read it now — link in bio.

#TypeOfHumans #TypeDesign #Typography #LatinTwo #DesignEducation TypeCommunity

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Latin Two Q & A for the 2026 edition. Some key highlights about the program and some common questions about the application process.

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LAST DAY ⏳
Enrollment closes tomorrow, January 13.

“If you are a letter lover like me, you will love Latin One. This program sharpened my typographic eye and gave me strong, practical skills. The classes are structured in a way that lets you immediately put theory into practice. I was amazed by how much I learned in just six weeks. I now notice details in letters I hadn’t seen before, feel more confident solving design problems, and get better results in my drawings.”

— Micaela Maltinti
Lettering artist & graphic designer

Jan 21 – March 4, 2026
Enroll now · Link in bio

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Hear all about our upcoming type design course Latin One (and a little of Latin Two)!

Enrollment ends tomorrow — last day to enroll is January 13, 2026.

🔗 Find the link to enroll in our bio.

See you in class!

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Experience Latin One — free.

Join us for a live preview lecture of our upcoming course Latin One: Mechanics.
In this session, @solmatas and @nicoledotin will share how a type design workflow actually unfolds — what happens when, and why — from first sketches to final font generation.

We’ll focus on working smarter:
spending more time on the fun parts (the design!) and less time fixing problems created by an inefficient process.

Everything we’ll share comes from years of practice — designing type, teaching it, and learning through real projects.

🗓 Wednesday, Jan 7, 2026
⏰ 10:30 am Central
💻 Live & online

👉 Register via the link in bio

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We’re pleased to share a closer look at Devanagari Two, a 12-week online course led by Kimya Gandhi and organized by Practica Program. Designed for type designers with prior experience in Devanagari, the course offers structured guidance, feedback, and community support to help participants develop a working Devanagari typeface.

#Devanagari #TypeDesign #GRANSHANInsight #Typography

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🎓 Congrats, Latin Two graduates of 2025! 🎉

We’re so proud to share a few highlights from the final projects created by this incredible group of designers. Each typeface reflects weeks of hard work, feedback, exploration, and care.

Featuring:
✨ Guirnalda by Alex Grau
✨ Lythica by Marisa Ten Brick
✨ Novosti by Mars Quave
✨ Guinda by Micaela Maltini
✨ Eiloy Text by Miguel Contreras
✨ Rasgo Grotesk by Ramón Lozano
✨ Verre by Sarah Nasby
✨ Terra by Vaishnavi Boyanapalli

And of course, our beloved group screenshot to wrap it up 💙

#TypeDesign #LatinTwo #TypographyEducation #PracticaProgram #TypefaceDesign #TypeGraduates2025

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The entire Practica team assembled! Starting left, @nicoledotin and @solmatas, who founded Practica Program and teach our Latin courses, and @kimyagandhi who teaches our Devanagari courses.

We spent zero time on business and instead, enjoyed catching up. But we’re all back to our respective homes and looking ahead to what’s next for Practica.

What do you want to see next from us?

#atypi #typedesign #font #onlinecourses

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We were honored to review exciting new type during a feedback session we hosted at the ATypI conference last week. Thanks to everyone who showed work!

You can see snippets of type from @spillingtype , @dfl_working and Dominika Federowicz. ❤️

#atypi #typedesign #typecrit

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Nicole Dotin will organise a Type Crits at ATypI Copenhagen, April 22–26, 2025. Venue is the Royal Danish Academy. Join us! 🇩🇰 ⁠
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https://atypi.org/conferences-events/atypi-copenhagen-2025/⁠
We can’t wait to see you there!⁠
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#ATypICopenhagen #ATypI2025⁠
#typefaces #typedesign #typography #graphicdesign #calligraphy #lettering #designeducation #techtalks #conference #Copenhagen #atypicreativeteam #typecrits #consultation #portfolio

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