Saturday seems to be a good day to play a font game. Pick which of two fonts feels more expressive — then see how your judgement compares with everyone else’s. tptq.com/got-character

We're working on a new type specimen where fonts are ranked by expressiveness. Help us sort them: look at two fonts, pick the more expressive one. Simple as that. (You might spot some unreleased typefaces. 🤫) tptq.com/got-character

4 student tickets left for our Berlin conference — half the price, covered by your future colleagues. 🤝

Drop us a message if you want one.

#fontstandcon2026

मोटे अक्षर घने दिखते हैं और ध्यान आकर्षित करते हैं, जबकि हल्के अक्षर नरम महसूस होते हैं और उतने उभरकर नहीं दिखते।

Do you read Hindi? We need your help. Our typographic research explores how Hindi speakers perceive letter weight — and what stroke thickness feels best in Devanagari and Latin scripts.
Take part: tptq.com/weight-hindi

Marta Cerdà is a designer based in Barcelona working at the intersection of typography and image. She will speak about dissolving boundaries between type and illustration, using eclectic, emotionally driven design across art, culture, and global visual communication.

#fontstandcon2026
Marta Cerdà, a designer from Barcelona working at the intersection of typography and image, will speak about dissolving boundaries between type and illustration, using eclectic, emotionally driven design across art, culture, and visual communication.
fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters commonly required for many First Nations orthographies.

As part of the Zed 2.0 update, Zed now includes IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters commonly required for many First Nations orthographies. www.typotheque.com/blog/improvi...

Georgian letter with variations drawn in the Zed Display font family.

Greek letter with variations drawn in the Zed Display font family.

Cyrillic letter with variations drawn in the Zed Display font family.

Armenian letter with variations drawn in the Zed Display font family.

Four dimensional design space offers a lot of creative possibilities. See what you can do with the Zed variable space explorer. www.typotheque.com/blog/a-typef...

Design space architecture of Zed Display font family.

Such an improvement from my earlier accurate-but-traumatising diagram

It is difficult to illustrate the scale of the Zed type system, which has four variable axes and a separate optical version. So we asked Just van Rossum to create an interactive visualisation of the design space.

www.typotheque.com/blog/a-typef...

Typotheque: Zed now supports Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, and Hebrew Zed expands beyond Latin with five new scripts — Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, and Hebrew — raising its coverage to 572 languages and making it one of the most extensive and ambitious type syst...

Zed, our most complex type system, just got better, and includes four new writing scripts: Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek and Hebrew. www.typotheque.com/blog/zed-now...

Sponsor a student ticket for the Fontstand typography conference in Berlin! #fontstandcon2026

For the Berlin conference, Fontstand offers a limited number of student tickets. Some attendees choose to pay more than the ticket price, and that extra money goes directly toward lowering the cost for students. There’s no promise, this only works if people who can afford more choose to contribute.🙏

Who is coming to Berlin in April for the @fontstand.com conference?

Typotheque: 2025: Our Year in Review As every year, we’re ending the year with a short overview of what happened at Typotheque. 2025 was busy: we released new typefaces, published new research, and spent a fair amount of time lecturing a...

As every year, we’re ending the year with a short overview of what happened at Typotheque. 2025 was busy: we released new typefaces, published new research, and spent a fair amount of time lecturing and presenting our work on three continents. www.typotheque.com/blog/2025-ou...

Raise to Revitalize Support Global Indigenous Language Revitalization

This season, I am fundraising for a program called Ready to Revitalize: a unique course run through @e-l-p.bsky.social for grassroots #language champions around the world.

It only costs $500 to sponsor a participant. Help us support language revitalization! #langsky

givebutter.com/elp2025/chas...

This Black Friday week, (just as we do every year) 100% of all our revenue will go to support Doctor Without Borders. They provide medical care in places where it’s desperately needed. If you choose to buy something, you’re helping them do that work. Thank you. www.msf.org/donate

It seems to be surprisingly hard to find a solid A3 B&W laser printer. HP models have been discontinued here in the Netherlands. Currently looking at the Kyocera ECOSYS P4140dn. Anyone has first hand experience with it?

Updated character designs paired with Sequoyah’s original designs. Image assembled by Roy Boney, Jr, for Cherokee Nation.

At 8pm (Amsterdam time) today, type designer Chris Skillern, a Cherokee Nation citizen, will discuss Cherokee script development and his type design research. Join the Typotheque Club for free to join this online talk. www.typotheque.com/club

Typotheque: Typotheque Club Typotheque type foundry, get unique, high quality fonts for print and screens directly from the designers. We also create custom (bespoke) fonts for most world's languages.

Join us on Monday 17 November at 8pm for a 60-minute online talk. Type designer Chris Skillern, a Cherokee Nation citizen, will discuss the Typotheque Cherokee project, which is the culmination of over two years of in-depth work and research. Join the club for free. www.typotheque.com/club

The Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator invites students—especially from Digitally Disadvantaged Language communities—to explore typography in a supportive online program. Successful Applicants receive 100% Scholarship coverage! Learn more: kbitype.org @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social

Six-line specimen of DJR’s Club Lithographer typeface.

Four sizes of Lithographer Italic in Farmer, Little & Co.’s 1878 type specimen catalog.

Spread with text set in the 19th-century Lithographer Italic typeface, from Theodore L. De Vinne’s 1891 specimen book.

Top-half of the Light Litho specimen page, from the 1923 specimen catalog of the American Type Founders Company.

Club Lithographer from DJR caught Katerina Grushka’s eye, thanks to its notable contrast, unusual angle, and long, liquid-like serifs. The typeface stands out as a singular, expressive italic and you can read her review of it on Fontstand News, here: news.fontstand.com/font-reviews...

We are looking into this 👀

Hi Max, Would you mind checking again if it is working now? We made some adjustments.

Interesting. Can you show me what happens on iOS26?

Absolutely! We document where the reader learned to read, and eventually want to conduct a similar study for various writing scripts.

People perceive thickness of letters very individually, and that’s why we are conducting Font Weight Survey to understand the regional preferences of font weight. Could we ask you for 10 min of your time? The findings will be published publicly once we have some results.
tptq.com/weight

Typotheque: New Cherokee and Osage fonts, and a complete Indigenous North American Type Collection Typotheque is proud to announce the release of new Cherokee and Osage fonts, and a complete Indigenous North American Type Collection.

Sorry about that. The correct link is www.typotheque.com/blog/cheroke...

Thrilled to be at WAVES 2025, the Global Indigenous Languages Summit by @ocil-ila.bsky.social to share the work of the Indigenous North American Type project @typotheque.com

Come visit our booth — the exhibit hall floor 3 & come to our collab session at 2 PM today in room 206! #WAVES2025 #langsky

Yes, different. Cree uses Canadian Syllabics, which a different writing system to Cherokee and Osage. Typotheque offers fonts for all of these writing scripts.

New Cherokee fonts developed by Chris Skillern (@tulseytype.bsky.social‬) and Osage fonts developed in collaboration with Dr. Jessica Harjo, which after five years of community-partnered research, marks a complete Indigenous North American Type collection!

www.typotheque.com/blog/novembe...

Typotheque: Books That Inspire Us Each summer, Typotheque takes time to recharge. Before our break, we share seven books from our studio shelves that continue to inspire our work.

Each summer, Typotheque takes time to recharge. Before our break, we share seven books from our studio shelves that continue to inspire our work. www.typotheque.com/blog/books-t...