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UPPERCASE 66 Design your own dingbat

This open call invites UPPERCASE readers to create typographic ornaments.

Typographic ornaments—dingbats, fleurons, initial letters, borders and glyphs—provide decorative options to typographers and designers.

All mediums and styles are welcome! Carved, engraved, drawn, painted, stitched or produced via digital tools like Adobe Illustrator or Procreate.

A selection will be published in UPPERCASE issue #66 (July-Aug-Sept 2025) and/or the UPPERCASE newsletter.

We will also produce a free font from a selection of submissions that will be publicly available and free for readers to use in non-commercial projects. By submitting to this open call, you consent to your art being made available in this manner. This is a non-exclusive license, meaning that you are granting UPPERCASE permission to create and distribute this free font, and by extension, the font users to download and use the font for non-commercial purposes. You retain the copyright of your artwork and can use your artwork in any way you like.

If you have any objections to your work potentially being included in the font, do not enter.

Deadline: May 1, 2025
Please proof all your information carefully. If you make an error in your email, then you won't receive news about your submission.
Describe your dingbat—what influenced your design and what tools did you use? (Be brief; this form will accept between 100 and 600 characters.)
FILE REQUIREMENTS
• Artwork must be black and white—no colour or grayscale images. • 3 inches wide at 300dpi saved as .jpg • If you're technically able, also include a vectorized version saved as .ai or .eps • Save the file with your full name so that it exactly matches the name you've entered above
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You will receive a confirmation email to confirm your submission was uploaded. UPPERCASE will notify submitters in May 2025 whether or not they will be published in issue #66. Thank you.
By submitting to this open call, you attest that this work is 100% your own and that you have not used generative AI in any way to produce this submission. You also permit UPPERCASE to potentially include your artwork in a font as described above.