Two excellent Japanese type designers, Ikumi Honda and Yui Yoshitomi, are hosting a lecture and workshop this May.
Opportunities like this are quite rare – dedicated type designers in Japan don’t often have time to teach beginners – so don’t miss this chance.
Francesco Franchi opened the conference with his presentation about news design on Friday night. Photo: Norman Posselt.
Ariane Spanier presented the process behind several of her recent projects, including a series of artistic statements about borders, designed to conceal a museum-construction site on Berlin’s Kulturforum. Photo: Norman Posselt.
Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich from the Berlin design bureau Moniteurs spoke about work they had undertaken for several airports, including Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which many attendees traveled through. Photo: Norman Posselt.
On Saturday morning, David Pearson gave attendees a look into his process behind the design of several book covers. Photo: Norman Posselt.
On Fontstand News, Mikina Dimunová reflects on the Fontstand Conference that took place a little more than a week ago in Berlin. For those of you who couldn’t make it, hopefully this will give you a feel for the presentations.
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Two excellent Japanese type designers, Ikumi Honda and Yui Yoshitomi, are hosting a lecture and workshop this May.
Opportunities like this are quite rare – dedicated type designers in Japan don’t often have time to teach beginners – so don’t miss this chance.
Last year, we conducted an independent survey focused on font use and licensing. More than 1,300 respondents participated from a wide community of designers and other font users, and we have now published a short article plus the full survey results on Fontstand News:
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19 tickets left for the Fontstand Conference in Berlin.
If you’ve been on the fence — this is the nudge.
👉 fontstand.com/conference
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. 😃🇯🇵
New lecture coming soon!
Japanese Writing System: History and Type Design, with Ikumi Honda (Iwata Corporation) and Yui Yoshitomi (Type Project)
May 2, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM CEST
Online, in English
20€
More info & tickets at wordsoftype.com
Next workshop!
Introduction to Japanese Type Design
with Ikumi Honda (Iwata Corporation) and Yui Yoshitomi (Type Project)
3-sessions workshop
May 9, 16, and 23, 2026
9:00 am to 1:00 pm CEST
Online, in English
330€
This workshop is limited to 10 participants max.
🎟️ at wordsoftype.com
20 years after its first release, JAF Lapture gets updated and expanded! The new version includes Black and Condensed styles, as well as Cyrillics.
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The speakers of the Fontstand Conference 2025.
Exactly 7 weeks remain until the annual Fontstand International Typography Conference in The Hague. Don’t miss your chance to connect with world-class type designers and typographers! Check out the schedule and register now at fontstand.com/conference/2....
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