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Gossip 



A Blackletter pixel font connecting the web and textiles, inspired by Gutenberg’s first lead type font—Textura, and Susan Kare’s Cairo glyphs.  





STYLE: Medium Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 5rem

3 resolutions means you can knit, embroider, & cross-stitch various type sizes all together on one piece!

STYLE: High Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 5rem

Quick wits and whispered gossip form vibrant safety nets.
STYLE: Low Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 5rem Whispers and stitches intertwine as crafty women boldly quilt jazzy secrets, vibrant tales, and bonds of resistance into the fabric of history. Jovial quilters exchange vibrant gossip, weaving complex threads of truth, fiction, and rebellion into every stitch.

STYLE: Med Res    WEIGHT: Square    SIZE: 12.5rem

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STYLE: Mes Res    WEIGHT: Cross-Stitch    SIZE: 12.5rem

Scoop

STYLE: Mes Res    WEIGHT: Cross-Stitch Small   SIZE: 12.5rem
Juicy


STYLE: Mes Res    WEIGHT: Needlepoint    SIZE: 12.5rem
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Gossip and blackletter typography, at first glance, couldn’t feel more opposite. Gossip moves through whispers and fleeting moments, while blackletter roots itself in permanence, weight, and authority. Yet, both share a fraught history. Gossip, often weaponized against women, has been trivialized as idle chatter, despite its role in building and sustaining social networks. Blackletter, too, carries the weight of being both revered and feared, a font that once represented the pinnacle of printed knowledge. 

When Gutenberg set his first lead type in Textura, blackletter became the visual language of mass communication, used to shape narratives and define truths. The words text and textile etymologically come from the same place—Textura, which can be defined as a weaving, a web, a texture, a structure. Gossip takes Gutenberg’s Textura, digitizes, and pixels it back into the new platform for information dissemination, the web, while also being designed to be easily translated back into textiles.z
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Reclaiming gossip through blackletter is an act of defiance. Blackletter, with its intricate, almost impenetrable lines, is historically linked to systems of control—churches, monarchies, legal codes. By placing gossip in blackletter, we take a font once tied to authority and use it as a tool for storytelling that has long been marginalized. This transforms gossip from something ephemeral to something fixed, demanding recognition. It asserts that communal, informal knowledge deserves to be treated with the same gravity as any formal record. Blackletter, in this sense, becomes a bridge between oral tradition and written permanence, holding space for stories once considered unworthy of documentation.

The act of pairing these two challenges hierarchies of knowledge and language. Gossip becomes a tangible archive, while blackletter sheds its past exclusivity. Together, they weave a complex narrative—one that honours the voices often relegated to the margins. Gossip isn’t diminished but magnified, claiming its place in history, no longer fleeting.H
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STYLE: Low Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 2.5rem
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STYLE: Medium Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 5rem

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STYLE: High Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 10rem


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STYLE: Low Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 20rem
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STYLE: Medium Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 10rem


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STYLE: High Resolution    WEIGHT: Pixel    SIZE: 5rem


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CHARACTERS GENERATED BY CAIRO TYPE FONT
Designed by Susan Kare, 1982–1983
MANUSCRIPT ALBUM OF DESIGNS FOR LACE AND EMBROIDERY
69 pages of various designs hand-drawn ink designs against a printed grid. At back of book there are several designs in color.
Germany, 1596
EIN NEW GETRUCKT MODEL BÜCHLI (MODEL BOOK)
45 pages of designs for weaving and embroidery
Augsburg, Germany, 1529
Petersborough, England, 1980s
Photograph by Chris Porsz
DE LANIIS ET PHITONICIS MULIERBUS (OF THE WOOLLY AND PHYTONIC WOMEN)
Germany, 1489
Written by Ulrich Molitor Printed by Johann Otmar
SKETCHES FOR GRAPHIC USER INTERFACE ICONS
Designed by Susan Kare, 1982–1983
STYLE: Medium Resolution    WEIGHT: Cross Stitch Small    SIZE: 31.25rem

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