Leitu Bonnici | Indigenous Autonomy in Type | letterspace.amsterdam 59 | 16 July 2025

While letterspace celebrates type and its creative possibilities, we also strive to engage critically with its histories and present-day implications. Typography reflects and reinforces cultural narratives, power structures, and systems of dominance. That’s why we’re especially excited to welcome Leitu Bonnici, who will be giving a lecture that interrogates the pervasive dominance of the Latin alphabet and the Western ideologies embedded within it.Leitu’s talk will offer a powerful critique of typographic hegemony while also presenting her own work, which challenges these structures through experimental, decolonial approaches to type design. She will also give us a glimpse into the legacy of her grand uncle, Joseph Churchward, a prolific Sāmoan type designer whose influence was pivotal in her own journey into the world of typography.