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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@pouet.chapril.org and @olivierbertrand@mastodon.social, 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

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

Nouveauté ! Interlope, par Gabriel Dubourg, est un caractère typographique inspiré par l'en-tête du magazine Interlopes, produit par le Groupe de Libération Homosexuel lyonnais dans les années 1970. Vous pouvez le télécharger librement sur https://velvetyne.fr/ Chouette ! #typographie #lettrage #interlope #lyon #queer #librefonts #velvetynetypefoundry #caractèreTypographique #GLH

We are at the printer!

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

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

Out now! Interlope, by Gabriel Dubourg, is a fantastic typographic interpretation of a lettering heading from a magazine published by the Homosexual Liberation Group of Lyon. Swashes galore. Get it now for free, only on --> https://velvetyne.fr/ <-- #interlope #typography #fhar #font #typeface #typedesign #opensource #freefont #outnow

Hi everyone! Following the publication of the Feroniapi typeface @juliennerichard@typo.social 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.

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

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We’re launching our first ever call for projects: Support Opensource Signs!

Submit your idea of a typographical project before the 15th of May and get the chance to have it released on Velvetyne and receive support from our team and a tuition of 1800€.

We're looking for weird ideas, under-represented scripts, commercially non-viable projects, projects at the meeting point between language and type design…

Details: https://velvetyne.fr/news/support-opensource-signs-1/

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Yo, people! A new typeface is out on Velvetyne and this one fell into the marmite of bizarre type. Letters is a display typeface by Céline Hurka and Jules Janssen which derives from a historical interest in the depiction of paper within the realm of printed matter, such as teared ribbons and ornamental backgrounds. Go to https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/letters/ to get it now! #typeface #font #opensource #letters #bizarre #experimental #typography #libre

[Fr] L’association Velvetyne a le plaisir d’annoncer que la première édition de l’appel à projets « Support Opensource Signs » a été remporté par Solenne Madi. Graphiste et typographe Franco-Libanaise installée à Rennes, son travail s’attache aux dialogues entre les systèmes typographiques latin et arabe. Elle poursuivra, dans le cadre de l’appel à projets, ses recherches sur les caractères de titrage arabes ancrant le projet dans un contexte de préservation de l’héritage culturel libanais.

Hello everyone! Velvelyne (a funky skeletal typeface) has just been released on our website! https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/velvelyne/
Velvelyne is published under the CUTE conditions, which are different from your plain old SIL OFL, so please check it out. #opensource #font #typeface #velvelyne

Bonjour tout le monde, découvrez dès maintenant Velvelyne, un caractère dessiné d'après son squelette, sur notre site : https://velvetyne.fr/fonts/velvelyne/
Velvelyne est publié sous les conditions CUTE, que nous vous invitons à lire. Oyez !
#typographie #fonte #opensource #velvelyne #codesourceouvert

[En] Velvetyne is pleased to annonce that the first edition of the "Support Opensource Signs" call for projects was granted to Solenne Madi. A Franco-Lebanese Graphic designer and typographer based in Rennes (France), her work focuses on the dialog between Latin and Arabic scripts. As part of the call for projects, she will carry on her research on Arabic display typefaces in a context of preserving Lebanese cultural heritage.

Hello all, we’re back online!

Sorry for the inconvenience.

https://velvetyne.fr/

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Hello all, our website is down, sorry for that.
We're working on it, but in the meantime you can find most of our fonts on our gitlab https://gitlab.com/velvetyne

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@tainome@mastodon.design was at offprint to participate to a nice performance !

@tainome@mastodon.design

@dobody@mastodon.design de rien, si tu trouves la source originale des lettres, on aimerait bien voir. Tandis que les lettres du texte ont bien l'air d'avoir été tracées à la main, les titres pourraient avoir été dessinés avec un normographe (ou "trace lettres") comme celui-ci (Minerva, il y avait d'autres marques, comme Nestler) (le style des lettres est un peu différent)