Good news, there are more places available now for the Designing fonts with Fontra workshop with Just van Rossum. Hurry up and use the last chance to register!
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MD UI is also available on @fontstand.com — you can use the fonts commercially from just €5/month (and after 12 months, they become yours to keep).
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Four of these tickets come at half price, if you are a student. Get in touch before they’re gone.
19 tickets left for the Fontstand Conference in Berlin.
If you’ve been on the fence — this is the nudge.
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Voland from CAST designed by Luciano Perondi.
NEW: Voland from CAST is a book typeface inspired by John Baskerville’s Double Pica from 1757, keeping its generous proportions and open counters, with low contrast for even colour at text sizes to improve reading comfort, but adding more contemporary increased x-height.
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4 student tickets left for our Berlin conference — half the price, covered by your future colleagues. 🤝
Drop us a message if you want one.
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Tony Brook, Marta Cerdà Alimbau, Francesco Franchi
Marko Hrastovec, Shoko Mugikura @shokojaf.bsky.social, Heike Nehl, David Pearson
Sibylle Schlaich, Ariane Spanier, Ferdinand Ulrich, Martin Wenzel @supertype.bsky.social
Who is your favourite speaker at #fontstandcon2026? Share your thoughts in the comments! And a big thank you to Peter Biľak @Fontstand for putting together such a fantastic lineup.
Don’t miss out on registering for the conference!
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AM Toscana, AM Tobruk, AM Radio, AM Macallè, AM Impero, AM Futurismo, AM Appennino, and AM Aosta from CAST.
NEW: the ‘Alfabeti Modernisti’ collection of Italian type revivals from CATS is expanding once more, now featuring eight new typefaces: AM Toscana, AM Tobruk, AM Radio, AM Macallè, AM Impero, AM Futurismo, AM Appennino, and AM Aosta. Quite Italian, isn’t it?
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Exact from Signal Type Foundry.
NEW: Exact from @signaltype.bsky.social, a fresh and joyful digital reinterpretation of Times New Roman genre, with some unlumpy curves and a notion of organic unity, spiced with a bit of 70s influence, and the name inspired by the old days of kerning with an X-Acto knife!
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One month to go — and only 40 tickets remain. With 210 already sold, we will be sold out. If you want to attend the conference in Berlin, now is the time.
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The first day of the event starts with a series of practical workshops focusing on type design, calligraphy, and the business of type, with Joana Correia, Shoko Mugikura, Just van Rossum, Fritz Grögel & Florian Hardwig.
The #fontstandcon2026 Friday Workshops are almost sold out! Don’t miss your last chance to register before they are all gone.
Check the full schedule at the conference website:
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Connect with world-class type designers and typographers from around the world for a packed two-day program of presentations and discussions on contemporary type, typography, and design.
The Fontstand Conference 2026 schedule is now online!
Connect with world-class type designers and typographers from around the world for a packed two-day program of presentations and discussions on contemporary type, typography, and design.
Register now!
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Finlay Sans from supertype®.
NEW: Finlay Sans from @supertype.bsky.social is the sans-swash version of the script typeface Finlay, with slightly curved strokes and rounded endings, comfortable to read, friendly in appearance, and fun to work with, in seven weights to help build a clear hierarchy.
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Tony Brook is a London-based designer, artist, and co-founder of SPIN and Unit Editions. With a practice that spans graphic design, art and publishing, he will explore expressive lettering as a distinct design craft in dialogue with typographic traditions.
Register now for the #fontstandcon2026 🇩🇪!
Tony Brook is a London-based designer, artist, and co-founder of SPIN and Unit Editions. With a practice that spans graphic design, art and publishing, he will explore expressive lettering as a distinct design craft.
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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.
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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.
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Marko Hrastovec is the founder of Hot Type, a Zagreb-based type foundry. In his talk, he will explore the ideological roots of his new Exat typeface, examining its cultural context and the contemporary revival. He will demonstrate that the concepts of neutrality, structure and function are never truly neutral.
Happy to announce another speaker for #fontstandcon2026:
Marko Hrastovec is the founder of Hot Type, a Zagreb-based type foundry. In his talk, he will explore the ideological roots of his new Exat typeface, examining its cultural context and the contemporary revival.
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Ferdinand Ulrich is a typographer and type researcher in Berlin; he is a visiting lecturer in Salzburg and frequently writes for Eye. He will discuss the challenges of investigating digital type design technologies from an era before PostScript.
Next at the #fontstandcon2026
Ferdinand Ulrich is a typographer and type researcher in Berlin; he is a visiting lecturer in Salzburg and frequently writes for Eye. He will discuss the challenges of investigating digital type design technologies from an era before PostScript.
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Fans of round sans around the world – come join my talk! I’ll be sharing rich visuals and taking a closer look at the details, history, and cultural context of round sans in Japan. 😃🇯🇵
Shoko Mugikura is a co-founder of Just Another Foundry, educated in Japan and the UK. She will examine why rounded sans carries authority in Japan, tracing its roots in calligraphy, signage, and multiscript typography — and why it means something very different outside Japan.
Speaker for the #fontstandcon2026 :
Co-founder of Just Another Foundry, Shoko Mugikura will examine why rounded sans carries authority in Japan, tracing its roots in calligraphy, signage, and multiscript typography — and why it means something very different outside Japan.
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LTR Limited Grotesque®: Probably never at Monotype, but available at letterror.com/limited/ and FontStand. Variable weight humanist sans. More flavor, less baggage. #fonts #typography #lettering #sans
LTR Limited Grotesque from LettError Type.
NEW: LTR Limited Grotesque from LettError Type is a beautifully drawn, semi-informal, low-contrast, illustrative humanist sans serif family with steeply angled italics, in two variable styles, with unexpected extra tails, curves, and characteristic details to stand out.
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David Pearson is a British designer specialising in typography-led print. He works with major cultural and commercial clients and will speak about redesigning literary classics, book covers as cultural signals, and typography as authorship.
Next speaker #fontstandcon2026 🇩🇪
David Pearson is a British designer specialising in typography-led print. He works with major cultural and commercial clients and will speak about redesigning literary classics, book covers as cultural signals, and typography as authorship.
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Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich are co-founders of Moniteurs, a Berlin studio specialising in information design and wayfinding. They will explore how typography at airports evolves over decades, balancing long-life wayfinding systems, changing technologies, and the identities of complex global hubs.
#fontstandcon2026 speakers Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich, co-founders of Berlin studio Moniteurs, will explore how typography at airports evolves over decades, balancing long-life wayfinding systems, changing technologies, and the identities of complex global hubs.
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Tiny Grotesk Italics from Tiny Type Co.
NEW: Tiny Grotesk from Tiny Type Co. now has italics across all styles! The regular-width italics are reliable but distinct, the narrow italics have a bit more flair, at a more subtle 10° angle, and the wide italics at a fast 24° angle are basically a whole new design.
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Martin Wenzel is a partner at supertype®, co-founded with Prof. Jürgen Huber. He will present the German Federal Government type project—from Merkel-era Windows 98 constraints to its 2025 update, where sustainability and digital impact matter.
#fontstandcon2026 news:
Martin Wenzel is a partner at @supertype.bsky.social with Prof. Jürgen Huber. He will present the German Federal Government type project—from Merkel-era Windows 98 constraints to its 2025 update, where sustainability and digital impact matter.
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Ariane Spanier is a Berlin-based graphic designer and creative director and co-editor of FUKT magazine for drawing. In her talk, she explores accent in design, positioning typography as a place for voice and identity.
New speaker announcement for #fontstandcon2026 🇩🇪!
Ariane Spanier is a Berlin-based graphic designer and creative director and co-editor of FUKT magazine for drawing. In her talk, she explores accent in design, positioning typography as a place for voice and identity.
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Francesco Franchi is an Italian journalist and graphic designer, and Deputy Creative Director at La Repubblica. He will discuss how editorial design turns news into experience, drawing on major newsroom redesigns, data, and narrative-driven visual journalism.
Exciting news for the #fontstandcon2026! 🔥
We’re thrilled to announce our conference speakers starting with the Friday keynote: Italian journalist and graphic designer Francesco Franchi and his keynote “How News Becomes Experience” followed by a Q&A with Peter Biľak.
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The Fontstand conference is an opportunity for type creators to engage in dialogue with the wider design community. The community is at the heart of Fontstand, which is why we are converting it into a collectively owned font distributor. Together, we can do more!
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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.🙏
Yesterday, we announced the Fontstand conference in Berlin, and with the limited capacity, ticket sales are going very fast. Make sure that you get yours before they are gone.
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