I am currently reading this wonderful book “Velvetyne Saved My Life”, and you should too, if you are interested in any of those subjects: type design, graphic design, free software, experimental design, collective creation… I have been part of the collective @velvetyne for 10 years and reading this book makes me very emotional. I guess you will react to this book differently, but I am sure you’ll love it. Buy it online or come to the Paris or Brussels launch!
https://surfaces-utiles.org/velvetyne-saved-my-life.html
@velvetyne @olivierbertrand #freesoftware #typedesign #paris #brussels #velvetyne

RE: https://mastodon.social/@olivierbertrand/116537996886689419

Hi, our book launch is happening this month! Come see us in Brussels and Paris this month!

Amazing talk by https://ju5tu5.nl, a philosophical close reading of the title. The Web You Want.
With ascii art and pixelfont FT88 by Ange Degheest published at @velvetyne

Velvetyne Saved My Life
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a polyphonic interview conducted by Sandra Chamaret with the members of the collective @fadebiaye @QuentinJuhel @raphael @lucaslebihan
@ilonalegrand @triple Ariel Martín Pérez @antonmoglia Jean-Baptiste Morizot @marielnils Manon Van Der Borght
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a series of articles on emblematic typefaces from the foundry
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an exhaustive catalogue of the fonts published and the workshops conducted
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Velvetyne Libre Friends

Pre-order here: http://surfaces-utiles.org/velvetyne-saved-my-life.html

We are at the printer!

You can pre order the book here: https://surfaces-utiles.org/velvetyne-saved-my-life.html

Hi everyone! Following the publication of the Feroniapi typeface @juliennerichard invites you on March 14 starting at 2 pm at the CEAAC in Strasbourg to celebrate its release with a festive launch 🥨 On the program: an exhibition with a sale of specimens and other surprises. Rain is expected on Saturday so we strongly recommend stopping by inside! Spread the word, we’d be delighted to see you there! 👀

Feroniapi is a redesign by Julienne Richard of Peter Wiegel's Feronia available on our website.

Please do not send AI-generated fonts! We do not trust oppressive and destructive tools!

Dear friends,
You may have noticed that our website is often unavailable. We are facing a massive load from anonymous scrapers, with over 30,000 IP addresses sending requests every day. We are fighting against AI bots! To find out more: https://velvetyne.fr/news/they-are-trying-to-kill-the-free-web/

#DDoS #Scrapers #AI

Hello everyone ! We are very proud to announce the release of “Velvetyne Saved My Life, Libre Fonts for Everyone Since 2011/Typographie libre pour tous·tes depuis 2011”, a bilingual monograph (FR/EN) edited by @sandra_nomade and @olivierbertrand, dedicated to our collective, which has been distributing libre fonts since 2011.

The first 150 pre-orders are 15% off. Pre-orders help us bring this parallelepiped to life!
➰📕 Delivery in May 2026.

Preorder → http://surfaces-utiles.org/velvetyne-saved-my-life.html

Et pour finir, une chaine "Compagnon bold in use" où je recense des usages trop cools de la police Compagnon bold que j'ai dessiné en 2018 et qui a bien voyagé depuis grâce à la SIL Open Font License et à la fonderie @velvetyne
Si vous l'avez utilisé, contactez-moi, je me ferais un plaisir de mettre la chaîne à jour !

https://www.are.na/chloe-lozano-yegge/compagnon-bold-in-use

#typography #fontinuse #typedesign

Peeps, after 15 years in the game, we made a book!

@olivierbertrand https://mastodon.social/@olivierbertrand/116019165080294433

Designed as a tool to make words more visible, it unsettles and questions the automatic nature of the process of reading (so prevalent in the typographic tradition) by proposing a system that slows it down, inducing pauses that allow to recreate on its form and better absorb the meaning of words. It finds beauty in discomfort, it's designed to interrupt.

#librefont #freefont #typography #pixelfont

Happy New year everyone!
On this 2026 we’ll never forgive and forget !

Flor de ruina is born from the life that emerges in the cracks, in the fissures of this world. Drawn by Felipe Sanzana, Its variants are a conceptual process that emulate the life cycle of a flower, therefore each glyph germinates, blooms, withers, and fissures.

You can download it there: https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/flor-de-ruina/

#librefont #pixelfont #freefont #typography #dingbat

New week, new project using one of my fonts on @FontsInUse
This time it's Le Murmure for a gorgeous double book dedicated to Lewis Caroll’s Alice. Don't click if you're allergic to distorted type.

Le Murmure is free and opensource at @velvetyne

https://fontsinuse.com/uses/73318/alice-s-adventures-under-ground-and-in-wonder

@tainome was at offprint to participate to a nice performance !

https://mastodon.design/@tainome/115564093834546709

Peter Wiegel est une grande source d'inspiration pour nous. Depuis des années, il distribue gratuitement des polices de caractères sur Cat Fonts https://www.peter-wiegel.de/. Nous sommes ravis de partager une police inspirée par lui.

#vivelatypolibre #typography #opensource

Peter Wiegel is a great source of inspiration for us. For years, he has been distributing free fonts on Cat Fonts https://www.peter-wiegel.de/. We are delighted to share a typeface inspired by him.

#viveopenfont #typedesign

Du nouveau !
Feroniapi est un hommage à la fonte Feronia de Peter Wiegel, réinterprétée par ​ @julienne.richard , inspirée par l’Art nouveau et les danses populaires. Vous pouvez la télécharger librement sur https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/feroniapi/.

#tributetoPeterWiegel #artnouveau #typography #font #typeface #typedesign #opensource #outnow

Say hello to Feroniapi!
A lively tribute to Peter Wiegel’s Feronia font, @julienne.richard redesigned it inspired by Art Nouveau and popular dance. Get it now free ! On https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/feroniapi/

#tributetoPeterWiegel #artnouveau #typography #font #typeface #typedesign #opensource #outnow

Hello all, we’re back online!

Sorry for the inconvenience.

https://velvetyne.fr/

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