GUS’25 /// Submissions for the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship are now closed. We will review all submissions and will announce the winner on 1 August 2025.
Our heartfelt thanks to everyone participating!
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Playwrite has a number of features that need to be enabled. Our new blog post shows you how to do it, both in the operating system and in popular applications.
Installing and using Playwrite /// Our award-winning Playwrite type superfamily has a wide range of features that may not be available unless you enable them. Don’t worry – our new blog post has you covered. 🧵 1/4
#typography #fonts #Playwrite #howto #handwriting #education #typesky #fontsky #RTFM
Playwrite, our font superfamily for handwriting education, was the only type design to be awarded a Yellow Pencil in the D&AD Awards 2025.
Playwrite wins D&AD Yellow Pencil /// We’re so happy to share the news that Playwrite, our groundbreaking type family for handwriting instruction, was chosen for a Yellow Pencil at the 2025 D&AD Awards last week in London. 🧵1/4
#typography #fonts #handwriting #dandad24 #fontsky #typesky
You now have five days to apply for the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship for student type designers.
GUS’25 – 5 days left to apply /// Here’s a friendly reminder that there are now 5 days left to apply to the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship. The deadline is Sunday, 1 June 2025 at your local midnight (anywhere on earth). 🧵 1/2
#GerardUngerScholarship #typesky #fonts #typography #noprocrastination
GUS’25 entries due June 1 /// This is a friendly reminder that entries for the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship are due on Sunday, June 1. 🧵 1/2
#GerardUngerScholarship #fontsky #typesky #studentdesign #scholarship
TypeTogether co-founders Veronika Burian and José Scaglione will speak at the D&AD Festival in London on Wednesday.
TypeTogether at D&AD Festival /// TypeTogether co-founders Veronika Burian and José Scaglione will give a talk on Wednesday at the D&AD Festival to give a talk you won’t want to miss. 🧵 1/3
#dandad25 #dandadfestival #typedesign #typography #fonts #fontsky #typesky
GUS’25 FAQ, part III /// The 1 June deadline for entries in the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship is fast approaching, and entrants may have questions about their eligibility, their work, or other aspects of the scholarship. 🧵 1/3
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GUS’25 FAQ /// Ready to send in your application for the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship but have questions? We’ve put together an FAQ that can help: www.type-together.com/resources/-2...
#GerardUngerScholarship #fonts #typedesign #fontsky #typesky
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Although personally slightly more a fan of serifs, I like this and the idea behind it especially, not to mention hearts, stars and sparks 😀 #onlysans #typeface #sans-serif #typesky
Our new book, ‘Letters for the future: Ten years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship’
‘Letters for the future’ book /// Our new book looking back on ten years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship is available for purchase in our online store. 🧵 1/5
www.type-together.com/index.php?ac...
#GerardUngerScholarship #typography #studentdesign #fonts #graphicdesign #fontsky #typesky
What is the Gerard Unger Scholarship? It offers mentorship, publishing, and funding for new type designers and their fresh designs – even unfinished designs. Detailed instructions, an FAQ, and more info are on our website: www.type-together.com/gerard-unger...
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Poltik and the clock /// We’ve mentioned in previous posts that Poltik was inspired by the numbers on a clock that belonged to designer Patrycja Walczak (@pattiwalczak.bsky.social)’s grandfather. This is the clock. 🧵 1/3
#typography #fonts #graphicdesign #designinspiration #fontsky #typesky
Poltik by Patrycja Walczak – It’s time to tell a story
Poltik – Time to tell a story /// Patrycja Walcak (@pattiwalczak.bsky.social) designed Poltik as a two-toned family with a reverse contrast text and eye-catching headliner for a stylish, expressive presence. 🧵 1/2
#typography #fonts #graphicdesign #retro #GerardUngerScholarship #typesky #fontsky
Playwrite and Primarium at ATypI /// TypeTogether co-founders Veronika Burian and José Scaglione presented an update on our Primarium and Playwrite projects at the ATypI conference yesterday in Copenhagen. 🧵 1/2
#typography #fonts #graphicdesign #ATypI #fontsky #typesky
Playwrite is a typeface for learning handwriting. It is available for free download from Google Fonts.
Playwrite wins Joseph Binder Award /// We were delighted and honoured to find out that Playwrite was recently named the winner of a gold award in type design in the 2024 Joseph Binder Award. 1/9
#typography #fonts #handwriting #handwriting #josephbinderaward #typesky #fontsky #graphicdesign
Poltik’s nature /// The mesmerising nature of Patrycja Walczak (@pattiwalczak.bsky.social)’s Poltik is ideal for concept store signage, a coffee shop, restaurant, or retro furniture store. 🧵 1/3
#typography #fonts #GerardUngerScholarship #graphicdesign #typesky #fontsky
TypeTogether will be at quite a few events in the coming weeks – looking forward to seeing you!
TypeTogether upcoming talks /// TypeTogether co-founders Veronika Burian and José Scaglione will be appearing at the following events in coming weeks: 🧵 1/2
#typography #fonts #conferences #GerardUngerScholarship #fontsky #typesky #graphicdesign
Poltik – systematised cheekiness /// Patrycja Walczak (@pattiwalczak.bsky.social)’s new Poltik type family has systematised cheekiness and funk to be as strong in functional ability as it is in aesthetics. 🧵 1/3
#typography #fonts #graphicdesign #retro #cheeky #typesky #fontsky
2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship – Now open! /// Ready to submit your application for the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship? We’ve got all the rules, online form, and FAQ on our website (link below). Entries are due by 1 June 2025. 🧵 1/2
#GerardUngerScholarship #GUS25 #typography #typesky #fontsky
Exploring Poltik /// Poltik’s ten text styles (five upright with matching italics) are a reversed contrast sans serif for many uses, and as such, all Poltik’s sediment has settled in the northern and southern hemispheres of each glyph. 🧵 1/3
#typography #fonts #graphicdesign #fontsky #typesky
Dargon, by Anne-Dauphine Borione.
GUS winners –Dargon /// The latest winner of the Gerard Unger Scholarship is Anne-Dauphine Borione for her typeface Dargon in 2024. 🧵 1/3
#typography #fonts #GerardUngerScholarship #graphicdesign #fantasy #gaming #fontsky #typesky
GUS winners – Poltik /// Patrycja Walczak’s Poltik began as a no-holds-barred display-only #font based on an old clock, and she has been diligently working on a fun idea for the text styles: a reverse contrast that’s as useful as it is interesting. 🧵 1/3
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GUS winners – Ploquine /// Designed from wood types for editorial use, Emma Marichal’s Ploquine can be aggressive or delicate. Ploquine won the Gerard Unger Scholarship in 2022 and was released in 2024. 🧵 1/3
#typography #typesky #fonts #GerardUngerScholarship #fontsky #graphicdesign
GUS winners – Aeroplan /// The Aeroplan serif font family is the first by type designer and crafts-maker Nina Faulhaber. Aeroplan won the Gerard Unger Scholarship in 2021 and was released in 2023. 🧵 1/4
#typography #fonts #GerardUngerScholarship #fontsky #typesky
GUS winners – Rezak /// Nothing is hidden in the simplistic forms and overt aesthetic of Anya Danilova’s Rezak font family, the winner of the 2020 Gerard Unger Scholarship. 🧵 1/4
#typography #fonts #graphicdesign #fontsky #typesky #GerardUngerScholarship
GUS winners – Temeraire /// Quentin Schmerber’s Temeraire serif font family was not designed to be invisible. The winner of the 2016 Typeface Publishing Incentive Program (later renamed the Gerard Unger Scholarship) was released in 2018. 🧵 1/4
#typography #fontsky #GerardUngerScholarship #typesky
Gerard Unger Scholarship winners – Bely /// Bely is Roxane Gataud’s venturesome text font family paired with a fearless display in the French style. Released in 2016, Bely is built upon classical proportions to capitalise on familiarity. 🧵 1/3
#fonts #fontsky #typesky #GerardUngerScholarship
2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship opens soon /// Entries for the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship will open on 15 April 2025 and will close on 1 June 2025. 🧵 1/3
#typography #fonts #studentdesign #GerardUngerScholarship #fontsky #typesky
Ploquine /// Based on historical typefaces made of wood, Emma Marichal’s Ploquine font family is a calm and structured slab serif for everything editorial and branding.
#fontsky #typesky #fonts #typography #graphicdesign
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Iskra is a sans-serif font challenging the limits between utilitarian and decorative.
Bestsellers – Iskra /// A practical sans serif need not appear dry, constructed, or derivative. It can excel in its sensible role and yet possess a distinct flair. Meet Iskra. 🧵 1/3
#typography #fonts #graphicdesign #cyrillic #typesky #fontsky #sansserif
