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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-...

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_...

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...

“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/...

We are looking for a junior graphic designer with a keen sense of typography. www.typotheque.com/blog/looking...

New font release🚀: Chairman is a utilitarian neo-grotesque with three rhythms and two optical sizes. www.typotheque.com/blog/chairman

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...

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...

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

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

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

#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

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...

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...

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...

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?

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...

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?

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Have you seen the new type specimen presenting Terrassa typeface? www.typotheque.com/books/terras...

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

Support the coop, if you use fonts do the survey!

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

An article worth reading every year or so. www.typotheque.com/articles/ori...

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...

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...

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

Terrassa, the newest addition to our collection, now available on typotheque.com

An evening to discuss architecture, geometry and typography, happening now in Barcelona. #typothequexcontraforma

New feature alert! 🚨 'download this page as .pdf' on typotheque.com/fonts 🍊

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

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...