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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:
Members of the Type community have once again sponsored students for the #fontstandcon2026 making tickets much more affordable. Thank you!
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If you’re a student and want a student ticket at 50% off, email info@fontstand.com.
These are the kind people who helped the students: @mass_driver@typo.social, TPTQ Arabic, Marko Hrastovec, @joanacorreiatype@typo.social, @MatthijsSluiter@typo.social, @signaltype@mastodon.design, @joyceketterer@typo.social, @commercial@typo.social, @jaf@typo.social, Coppers and Brasses, Playtype, Nouvelle Noire, @productiontype@mastodon.social, @paulvanderlaan@typo.social, @boldmonday@mastodon.online, @bennzorn@typo.social, @martinmajoor@typo.social, @Lettermin@typo.social, Nora Warschewski, @AnnaKhorash@typo.social, Anja Lutz, @benkiel@typo.social & @jesseragan@typo.social, @djrrb@mastodon.social, @typematesfonts@bird.makeup, Eugene Yukechev.
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The sixth Fontstand Conference is now open for registration!
Join us in Berlin, 🇩🇪 April 10-11, for the annual get-together of people interested in all aspects of type and typography.
Fontstand is becoming a co-op! At the Fontstand Conference in The Hague, we announced that we’re becoming a cooperatively owned and managed font distributor – with expanded licensing and services. Stay tuned as we create a more equitable, transparent and democratic model for font designers.
On Fontstand News, Mikina Dimunová reflects on the Fontstand Conference that took place a little more than a week ago in Berlin. If you were there, we hope you enjoy this look back at the speakers’ presentations. For those of you who couldn’t make it, hopefully this will give you a feel for them, too.
https://fontstand.com/news/design-news/the-granularity-of-origin-fontstand-in-berlin/
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!
#fontstandcon2026
NEW: Exact from @signaltype@mastodon.design is a fresh and joyful digital reinterpretation of the 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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https://fontstand.com/fonts/exact
At next week’s Fontstand conference in Berlin, we’ll be trying something new: presenting community news during the breaks. If you have any news that you think is relevant to the wider type community, please let us know.
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.
19 tickets left for the Fontstand Conference in Berlin.
If you’ve been on the fence — this is the nudge.
👉 fontstand.com/conference
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:
https://fontstand.com/conference
@justvanrossum@typo.social @joanacorreiatype@typo.social @ShokoMugikura@typo.social @fritz_groegel@typo.social @fhardwig@mastodon.social
4 student tickets left for our Berlin conference — half the price, covered by your future colleagues. 🤝
Drop us a message if you want one.
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!
https://fontstand.com/conference/
#fontstandcon2026
News for the #fontstandcon2026 :
Martin Wenzel is a partner at @supertype@typo.social, 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.
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. 🎟️
#fontstandcon2026
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.
https://fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com/
NEW: the ‘Alfabeti Modernisti’ collection of Italian type revivals from CAST 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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https://fontstand.com/foundries/cast
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.
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.
Register now at https://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.
Next speaker 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.
@ferdinandulrich@typo.social
https://fontstand.com/conference
NEW: Finlay Sans from @supertype@typo.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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https://fontstand.com/fonts/finlay-sans
We are 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.
Who is your favourite speaker at #fontstandcon2026? Share your thoughts in the comments! And a big thank you to Peter Biľak @fontstand@typo.social for putting together such a fantastic lineup.
Don’t miss out on registering for the conference!
https://fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com/
Have a look at @ryan@typo.social’s review of @Typographics@typo.social 2025! He was there, and he’s been reflecting on how the festival still unites type makers and users. https://fontstand.com/news/design-news/a-look-at-typographics-on-its-11th-year/
Today, on Fontstand News, Lisa Huang gives us some of the backstory and her motivation for creating @wordsoftype@typo.social. You should check out her essay and visit her project’s site – if you don’t already look things up there multiple times a week:
https://fontstand.com/news/essays/do-you-speak-typography/
Four of these tickets come at half price, if you are a student. Get in touch before they’re gone.
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 in dialogue with typographic traditions.
Only a few places left for this workshop, don’t miss out! #fontstandcon2025
@timahrens@typo.social will give a hands-on introduction to the Kern On plugin for Glyphs, with advanced tricks, in-depth explanations of the underlying mechanisms, and a discussion on users’ feature requests.
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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: http://fontstand.com/survey
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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https://fontstand.com/fonts/voland
NEW: LiebeHeide is the vector version of @LiebeFonts@mastodon.social color bitmap font of the same name, with its clean lines and smooth curves, packed with a wide range of ligatures and numerous alternatives for each letter, which are rotated for a more personal touch.
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Don’t miss the workshops at #fontstandcon2025, spots are selling fast!
Python for Designers with Roberto Arista is an introduction to programming in Python language, working in the popular application DrawBot for the Mac, to generate and explore visual ideas using code.
#python #ad
Last week, we had a conference. There have been a bunch of others recently, too. Often, attending a conference means booking overnight accommodation. @MatthijsSluiter@typo.social from @FontsInUse@typo.social wrote a profile for us featuring the graphic design from four hotels with typefaces from @boldmonday@mastodon.online, @typotheque@typo.social, @kontourtype@bird.makeup and @muccadesign@bird.makeup.
https://fontstand.com/news/fonts-in-use/fonts-in-use-sleeping-over/
NEW: Cy Glitch by @supertype@typo.social is a graphic expression of the perfect glitch, with some clever OpenType features swapping the glyphs to create interesting textures and mixing the straight letters into the slanted mix. Available in 9 weights from thin to black. #ad
