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.

With a smartphone in hands, I filmed lots of short clips, especially when our family was out skiing and riding. With short clips, I turned them into YouTube shorts. I enjoyed pairing the favorite videos with my favorite jazz tunes. Here’s a clip of my wife skiing and my son cruising down the steep green at Liberty.

I graduated from La Salle University in 2001 with a BA in digital arts and multimedia design. I was in the inaugural graduating class of the DART program. Now, 24 years later, I am invited back to my alma mater to speak on typography. I am looking forward to connecting with my young design classmates tomorrow.

Whether skiing, snowboarding, web design, or jazz appreciation, when I wanted to explore something new, I dived in as deep as I could. Typography was no exception. I spent years not only practicing typography, but also picking up every book I could get my hands on. I even collected them so I can reread them in the future. If you are interested in typography, here are 30 books, which I have on my bookshelf, for you to discover the art and science of typesetting.

In the past two nights after work, I tuned up 3 boards and 6 pair of skis. Xuân and I have a board and a pair of skis. Đạo has a new pair of skis. I also tuned up his previous pairs to store away. I just looked up Alpine Ski Shop and price for basic tuning is $65 for skis and $50 for snowboard. I am saving us $540 by tuning them myself. Skiing and snowboarding are not cheap. I have to save whatever I can. I will finish up scraping the wax tonight.

Vũ Nguyễn writes:

Please remove what you wrote about nhạc sến being cheesy. Obviously you don’t truly enjoy it. If you want cheesy then take a look in the mirror.

To be honest, I can’t remember what I had written about Nhạc Sến. This is the only post that I could find about Nhạc Sến and “cheesy.” Reading it again, I did not knock on Nhạc Sến. Anyway, I am not going to remove what I had written.