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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 15/09/2026
Fontstand Cooperative now exists. 🚀 After two years of work, it’s officially incorporated in the Netherlands. We’ve opened applications for independent type foundries. Read more, and consider joining us. fontstand.com/news/design-...
Rafał Buchner’s composition for the 2026 Fontstand Conference in Berlin, photographed by Norman Posselt.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 04/09/2026
Do you speak Japanese? We are now extending our type weight study to include Japanese. Help us spread the word and find out which font weight Japanese readers find most natural. typotheque.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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文字のウエイトに関する調査(日本語)
文字ウエイトに関するアンケートにご協力ください。所要時間は10分程度です。
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 14/07/2026
Interested in geometric slab serifs and how they developed? A summary on Fontstand News looks into their past and similar typefaces on Fontstand in the present: fontstand.com/news/font-re...
Memphis’s bold style (halbfett) was the first part of the family that the D. Stempel AG typefoundry released. Designed by Stempel’s artistic director Rudolf Wolf, the debt that Memphis paid to Futura is clear when the letters are closely analyzed. For instance, the lowercase a is not only single-storied but the lowercase r is a ball-and-stick form, just like Paul Renner designed for Futura. The printing industry considered that several of Futura’s atypical shapes were too unorthodox, and the ball-and-stick r was quickly replaced. Stempel would soon offer a normal r for Memphis, too. Image from a c. 1934 German Linotype specimen for Memphis digitized by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.Stymie Medium, designed by Morris Fuller Benton for ATF.Two all-caps geometric slab serif families. From top to bottom: Irma Slab Bold, Tesla Caps A, and Tesla Caps C.
Six designs with “rounded rounds,” from top to bottom: Tesla Slab Hairline, Mortise Light Italic, Irma Text Slab Pro Regular, Produkt Medium Italic, Elizeth Bold, and Pepi/Rudi Black Italic.
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 02/07/2026
“Life is all about improv, and Mitch was all about life. He will be dearly missed, but his ideas will live on in the myriad of ways he expressed them.” You can read the rest of Sebastian Carewe’s tribute to Mitch Paone here: fontstand.com/news/essays/...
Mitch Paone on stage at the Fontstand Conference 2025 in The Hague. Photo: Tom Brown.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 10/06/2026
We are looking for a junior graphic designer with a keen sense of typography. www.typotheque.com/blog/looking...
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Typotheque: Typotheque is looking for a Junior Graphic Designer
Typotheque is looking for a junior graphic designer, 2–3 days/week to design type specimens.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 08/06/2026
New font release🚀: Chairman is a utilitarian neo-grotesque with three rhythms and two optical sizes. www.typotheque.com/blog/chairman
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Typotheque: New typeface: Chairman
Chairman is a utilitarian neo-grotesque that grows quieter at headline sizes and sparkier in running text, with three width systems that shape the rhythm of paragraphs.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 25/05/2026
New article on the evolution of Tibetan typography. 4,503 words. Very niche. Very long. Very deep. If you’re the audience for this, you stopped reading and clicked already. www.typotheque.com/articles/the...
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Typotheque: The evolution of Tibetan typography article on Typotheque by Jo De Baerdemaeker
An in-depth overview of Tibetan typography, tracing the script’s origins, structure and stylistic traditions, and following its transformation from early calligraphy and woodblock printing through met...
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 22/05/2026
Last year, we released fonts for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. We are also committed to lesser-used scripts. Tibetan may not have the global reach of CJK, but it carries immense historical and cultural weight. Happy to launch this collection of fonts. www.typotheque.com/blog/a-new-c...
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Typotheque: A new collection of Tibetan fonts
Last year, we released our first fonts for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean — used by more than a billion people across the region. We are equally committed to lesser-used yet culturally significant scri...
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Fonts In Use @fontsinuse.com · 04/05/2026
Cheers to @typotheque.com, a Fonts In Use core sponsor since 2024! You can decide how they organize their next type specimen by playing their Font Expressiveness Game: www.typotheque.com/blog/font-ex... #Fonts #FontsInUseSponsors
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Typotheque: Font Expressiveness Game
We’re creating a new type specimen and need your help ranking 200+ fonts by expressiveness — from most neutral to most characterful. Play pairwise comparison game and you might spot some unreleased ty...
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 28/03/2026
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
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 26/03/2026
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
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 20/03/2026
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
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 16/03/2026
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
मोटे अक्षर घने दिखते हैं और ध्यान आकर्षित करते हैं, जबकि हल्के अक्षर नरम महसूस होते हैं और उतने उभरकर नहीं दिखते।
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 18/02/2026
#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
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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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 22/01/2026
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...
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) characters commonly required for many First Nations orthographies.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 21/01/2026
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...
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.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 20/01/2026
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...
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 19/01/2026
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...
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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...
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 15/01/2026
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.🙏
Sponsor a student ticket for the Fontstand typography conference in Berlin! #fontstandcon2026
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 14/01/2026
Who is coming to Berlin in April for the @fontstand.com conference?
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 01/01/2026
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...
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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...
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Bridge Chase @bchasemadethis.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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...
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Raise to Revitalize
Support Global Indigenous Language Revitalization
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 26/11/2025
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
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 18/11/2025
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?
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 17/11/2025
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
Updated character designs paired with Sequoyah’s original designs. Image assembled by Roy Boney, Jr, for Cherokee Nation.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 10/11/2025
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
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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.
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Bridge Chase @bchasemadethis.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 28/10/2025
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...
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.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 05/10/2025
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
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Bridge Chase @bchasemadethis.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 09/08/2025
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...
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 22/07/2025
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...
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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.
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 30/06/2025
This is the final week of collecting responses regarding font users’ opinions on the current state of font licensing. The survey will close on Sunday 6 July at midnight CEST. Once the data has been analysed, we will share the findings publicly. Complete the survey today: fontstand.com/survey
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 19/06/2025
Join us tonight at 8pm (Amsterdam time) for a presentation on the process of designing Terrassa typeface, with Nikola Djurek, Rafał Buchner, and Héctor Mangas. Online talk for members only Become a member for free 🔗 www.typotheque.com/club
Terrassa variable font
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 19/06/2025
Have you seen the new type specimen presenting Terrassa typeface? www.typotheque.com/books/terras...
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 17/06/2025
Fontstand is changing to be owned by indie type foundries, and Typotheque will be one of them. This is a significant change and effort to shape the future of type industry together. As part of it, we want to hear from people who use fonts what their experience is. Survey: fontstand.com/survey
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The Font User Survey (14 min) by Fontstand
We are interested in learning more about the use of typography in the graphic design industry. How do you use type? How do you license it? And what do you value about it? Help us answer these question...
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 16/06/2025
Join us on Thursday for a free 50-minute online talk exploring the design and development of Terrassa, a typeface inspired by architectural lettering. 📅 19 June, 2025, 8pm Amsterdam time. Exclusively for Typotheque Club members* Become a member for free here. www.typotheque.com/club
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Marta Bernstein @martabernstein.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Support the coop, if you use fonts do the survey!
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 11/06/2025
We’re are launching an independent industry-wide survey for font users. We want to hear about your experiences: What works? What’s confusing or frustrating? What would you change? Your answers will help us decide how licensing works within the Fontstand Cooperative. fontstand.com/survey
Fontstand font user survey.
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Typographica @typographica.org · 05/06/2025
An article worth reading every year or so. www.typotheque.com/articles/ori...
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Typotheque: Originality and inspiration in Type Design
The article was triggered by the discussions with the late Gerard Unger about the nature of originality in the type design industry, highlighting the importance of historical continuity in creating ne...
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Fontstand @fontstand.com · 29/05/2025
NEW: Terrassa by @typotheque.com is a complex modular typeface inspired by architectural lettering, striking a balance between rational construction and visual rhythm. It comes with five variable axis, offering thousands of variations in Display and Gradient versions! fontstand.com/fonts?search...
Terrassa Display by Typotheque.
Terrassa by Typotheque.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 28/05/2025
This printed type specimen, designed by Manera Estudi, presents the background and design thinking behind the Terrassa typeface. It features an in-depth essay by Manuel Sesma, as well as a prologue text by Nikola Djurek. www.typotheque.com/books/terras...
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Typotheque: Typotheque specimen No. 24
This printed type specimen presents the background and design thinking behind the Terrassa typeface.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 27/05/2025
Terrassa Display and Gradient both contain five variable axes. We considered providing traditional static fonts, but that would produce over 10,000 variations, which would overwhelm your font menu. Instead, we deliver Terrassa Display and Gradient as variable fonts. typotheque.com/fonts/terrassa
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 22/05/2025
Terrassa, the newest addition to our collection, now available on typotheque.com
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 21/05/2025
An evening to discuss architecture, geometry and typography, happening now in Barcelona. #typothequexcontraforma
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 19/05/2025
New feature alert! 🚨 'download this page as .pdf' on typotheque.com/fonts 🍊
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Words of Type @wordsoftype.com · 16/05/2025
TODAY Lecture with @hectormangas.com from @typotheque.com about Legibility research from a non-Latin perspective, and what we’ve learned with Thai loops Starting at 4 PM CEST (previous posts mentioned 2 pm but it is a mistake on us, sorry for the confusion 🙈) Tickets and details: wordsoftype.com
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 12/05/2025
Designing dense Chinese characters presents a paradox: increasing the weight of the strokes can compromise legibility, yet insufficient weight fails to harmonise with the visual weight of Latin letters. Read more about creating very dark Chinese characters: www.typotheque.com/articles/chi...
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Typotheque: The Weight of Chinese Characters: Designing an Ultra-Bold Typeface
This article explores how stroke thickness affects perceived weight in Chinese characters, explaining the complexity of designing balanced, readable type across various weights and styles.
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 09/05/2025
Chinese characters vary across East Asia due to regional language evolution and reform. Although it is possible to have a single CJK font, letterforms need to align with regional preferences. This article aims to explain the regional variants. www.typotheque.com/articles/und...
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Typotheque: Understanding CJK regional character variants article on Typotheque by Eric Q. Liu
Chinese characters, or Han characters, vary across East Asia due to regional language evolution and reform. Although Unicode unifies them into a single Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) block, fonts ...
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Typotheque @typotheque.com · 08/05/2025
Using CJK fonts is not simple, so we prepared an article on the typesetting principles of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) text www.typotheque.com/articles/typ...
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Typotheque: Typesetting principles of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) text
This article highlights the typographic differences between Latin and CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) typography. It covers vertical and horizontal text orientation, line height requirements, text ...
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