Celebrating women
This is a post to collect websites which give credit to women who contributed much and who—in their day—went unnoticed and barely mentioned. Wonderful to see how these stunning websites now celebrate their work and give these women their overdue credit.
Women in type
Women in Type is a three-year research project undertaken at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication of the University of Reading between March 2018–November 2021.
University of Reading
This website is an absolute pleasure to view, with many wonderful images, shots of the work being done, drawing of letters and the details to go with it. Have a look at the lovely story telling and explore the articles for details of the lettering work ~ just beautiful ツ
All images are from the original website and copyright remains that of the original creators, see the website’s colophon for sources.
no web without women
Selman
webwithout women
A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.
Apart from offering great details on the featured women and their work, this site’s design is wonderful. The use of colour is randomised and the treatment of the images to integrate with the background is brilliant. Quite a feat to establish a consistency of these profile shots from the different eras and across the vast variety of colour ~ just beautifully done.
Image credit
The thumbnail image of this post is an old illustration by Dugald Stewart Walker (1883-1937), called “Dance with me”.
Found on oldbookillustrations – an amazing site which collects and publishes images in the public domain.
