George Mason University received $36 million from the Kimmy Dương Foundation to name the Long Nguyễn and Kimmy Dương School of Computing within the College of Engineering and Computing. Mason:

Duong was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, in 1945 and earned a bachelor of science in economics and law from the University of Saigon in 1966. She joined IBM in 1968, where she worked until she left the country in 1975, when she fled Vietnam and arrive in the United States with only $30.

For $36 millions, the least they can do is putting some diacritical marks on their names.

Classical yet contemporary, unconventional yet functional, lively yet sturdy, extravagant yet simple, NaN Tragedy, designed by Jean-Baptiste Morizot, pushes the typographic contradictions to provide a wide range of dramas and versatilities within its family. NaN Tragedy equips with solid, expressive diacritics. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex. The tail on its hook is a killer. It’s all about the detail. Take a look!

With perpendicular terminals, open counters, and distinctive flat terminal-endings, NaN Serf is designed with versatility, flexibility, and comfortability in any typographical settings. NaN Serf packs sturdy diacritics. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex. Check out NaN Serf.

In the latest episode of the Ezra Klein Show, the host talks to Jonathan Haidt on how “Our Kids are the Least Flourishing Generation We Know of.” I highly recommend it for parents. With the rise of digital addictions and AI, our kids are fucked. They don’t have the mechanism to deal with these endless stimulations. I am deeply concerned about our children.

I came across Maname, designed by Pathum Egodawatta and Mooniak, has odd placements of Vietnamese diacritics. They need to be fixed. Get in touch and we’ll work them out.

Ten years after the launch of Vietnamese Typography, I am proud to feature for the first time a Vietnamese typeface designed by a Vietnamese type designer: Thow, designed by Dương Trần.

Inspired by the typeset in Đông Dương Tạp Chí (1913–1919), a Vietnamese newspaper in Hà Nội founded by François-Henri Schneider and Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh, Thow is a transitional text family with comfortable-reading qualities including generous x-heights, open terminals, and distinguishable diacritics. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.

Take a look at Thow’s Vietnamese specimen and license it over at Future Fonts.

We stayed silent and we scrubbed all diversity pages. Glad to hear students speaking out.

We made a commitment scrub anything related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

My YouTube channel surpasses 400 subscribers. I posted over 530 videos. Most of them are shorts. It is still a milestone, nevertheless.

Ottavio, designed by David Jonathan Ross, is a sans-serif family honoring Ottavio Bottecchia who won the Tour de France in July 1924. It has wide, open letterforms with sweeping gestures and humanist qualities. With its unbalanced features (open terminals and triangular counterforms), Ottavio achieves balance through the rhythm of constant motion. For Vietnamese, its acute, grave, and hook above stack to the right of its circumflex.