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NEW: Qantara from @boldmonday.bsky.social is a clear and sturdy slab serif with reduced contrast for optimal legibility, even in smaller sizes. It has many alternates that allow you to customize the design for your intended purpose and flavor. fontstand.com/fonts/qantara

NEW on Fontstand is the Q Project from @typotheque.com, a game-like type system inspired by toys, enabling users to create a nearly infinite number of creative variations with a range of base fonts and dozens of decorative attachments that can be combined and layered. fontstand.com/fonts/q-proj...

📅 Mark your calendars. The next Fontstand conference will take place in The Hague 🇳🇱 on 23–24 April 2027. Hope to see you there!

NEW: Riant from @kontour.bsky.social combines the clarity and rigor of geometric design with the optical adjustments necessary for sustained reading across all media. A comprehensive set of OpenType features allows users to adjust the texture and character of the typeface. fontstand.com/fonts/riant

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-...

TYPA has been building a database of its wood and metal type collection. This could help digital type designers today, but they’re using the digital data to make type in physical formats, too. Read Paweł Schulz’s article about what has been going on here: fontstand.com/news/essays/...

NEW: Dargon from @typetogether.bsky.social, an epic type family inspired by fantasy gaming, in two parts – Dargon, an uncial-inspired set of six display fonts (each named for the schools of magic in a popular role-playing game), and Dargon Text, for body copy or UI. fontstand.com/fonts/dargon

NEW: Shekanj from @tptq-arabic.com is a very special expressive typeface at the intersection of Nastaʿlīq, Ruqʿah, and Naskh styles, exploring the positioning of Nastaʿlīq letterforms along a horizontal baseline. Paired with Lumin Sans Condensed by Typotheque for Latin. fontstand.com/fonts/shekanj

NEW: Eddi Grotesk from bvh type draws on early, historically rooted sans-serif aesthetics, positioning it as a subtle reinterpretation of the Eddi typeface, while preserving part of its core DNA, blending modern sans-serif clarity with a refined historical sensibility. fontstand.com/fonts/bvh-ed...

NEW: Anto Rounded Air from bvh type is the airy, stencil-like version of the base family of the same name, spiced up with mono width proportions and some really clever details, best suited for posters, display use or identity projects. fontstand.com/fonts/bvh-an...

On Fontstand News, @typeoff.bsky.social has just reviewed PampaType’s Gorgias typeface, designed by Manuel López Rocha. He had to wait a whole year to write it, so please check it out here! fontstand.com/news/font-re...

NEW: Merwede Sans from @boldmonday.bsky.social is a humanist sans companion to its serif sibling, keeping the distinctive structure of true italics and adding two extra weights for elegant book typography and musical notation with an extensive set of OpenType features. fontstand.com/fonts/merwed...

NEW: Gagneur, a non-dogmatic French typeface for text, drawn from memory by @veryrobin.me from Tiny Type Co. Questioning history and dogma, the result is a friendly and familiar family, ready for books, catalogues, magazines, and feature-rich enough for use at many sizes. fontstand.com/fonts/gagneur

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...

NEW: Milgram from @signaltype.bsky.social is a rounded humanist sans with a hint of nostalgia for the 60s, bringing a useful typeface for display and text with open counters and apertures and low contrast for added readability and a broad language support in 12 styles. fontstand.com/fonts/milgram

“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/...

NEW on Fontstand: Maregraphe Collection from CSTM Fonts is a modern serif superfamily inspired by late 19th-century French lettering, in a range of 20 styles from small text (Caption) to super-display (Poster) — plus a variable font. Check out those extreme extremes! fontstand.com/fonts?search...

NEW: Clarinetta and Clarinetta Unicase from supertype® are two parts of an elegant contemporary serif typeface family built on deliberately pronounced serifs and a striking contrast (brought to extreme in Ultra weight), and italics with a flowing stroke and dynamism. fontstand.com/fonts?search...

NEW: Chairman from @typotheque.com is a utilitarian neo-grotesque superfamily with four distinctive voices: Display, with clarity and style; Text, adding stronger personality; and Mono and Semi-Mono bringing a different typesetting rhythm. Designed by Nikola Djurek. fontstand.com/fonts?search...

NEW: Canela Arabic from @commercialtype.bsky.social is an Arabic and Latin script typeface expanding the crisp elegance of the original Canela family by drawing inspiration from both the Thuluth and Naskh traditions, with a distinct and expressive presence of its own. fontstand.com/fonts/canela...

Interested in rounded sans serifs from the past as well as today? There is a new summary on Fontstand News, explaining some of their development stages: fontstand.com/news/font-re...

NEW: Ragu from Nova Type Foundry is the warm, flavourful display typeface you may want to use for branding and packaging, but also for small text, with a soft, rounded construction and generous curves, in six weights with italics, supporting Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic. fontstand.com/fonts/ragu-pro

NEW: JAF Globus from @justanotherfoundry.bsky.social is a modernist typeface with geometric feel, but not built on a strict geometric system. Designed to work at small sizes on screen with a generous white space and adjusted widths, it has a comfortable rhythm in text. fontstand.com/fonts/jaf-gl...

NEW: Kuhlman by DJR reinterprets the expressive lettering style deployed by graphic designer Roy Kuhlman in his book cover designs, trying to capture a bit of Kuhlman’s blend of chaos and consistency of angular letterforms originally cut out of paper or masking film. fontstand.com/fonts/kuhlman

NEW: MD UI from @mass-driver.com is a typeface for interfacing, optimised for word- and sentence-level performance, with an appearance that doesn’t try to be neutral, but doesn’t surprise or distract. Available in three optical sizes: MD UI, MD UI XS, and MD UI XL. fontstand.com/fonts?search...

NEW: CoFo Sans Semi-Mono from @contrastfoundry.bsky.social is the ultimate fusion of CoFo Sans and its monospaced variant CoFo Sans Mono, keeping the typical details and personality, but with subtly adjusted character and horizontal proportions for smoother typesetting. fontstand.com/fonts/cofo-s...

NEW: Gregory Text from TypeMates is a contemporary bookish typeface inspired by the historical aesthetic of early Slab Serif metal types, with charming little quirks, chunky, softly curved serifs, and squareish counter shapes, in 7 weights, plus corresponding italics. fontstand.com/fonts/gregor...

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. fontstand.com/news/design-...

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: fontstand.com/news/design-...

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 fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

MD UI is also available on @fontstand.com — you can use the fonts commercially from just €5/month (and after 12 months, they become yours to keep). fontstand.com/foundries/ma...

Four of these tickets come at half price, if you are a student. Get in touch before they’re gone.

19 tickets left for the Fontstand Conference in Berlin. If you’ve been on the fence — this is the nudge. 👉 fontstand.com/conference

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. fontstand.com/fonts/voland

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

Who is your favourite speaker at #fontstandcon2026? Share your thoughts in the comments! And a big thank you to Peter Biľak @Fontstand for putting together such a fantastic lineup. Don’t miss out on registering for the conference! fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

NEW: the ‘Alfabeti Modernisti’ collection of Italian type revivals from CATS 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? fontstand.com/foundries/cast

NEW: Exact from @signaltype.bsky.social, a fresh and joyful digital reinterpretation of 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! fontstand.com/fonts/exact

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

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: fontstand.com/conference

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! fontstand.com/conference/ #fontstandcon2026

NEW: Finlay Sans from @supertype.bsky.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. fontstand.com/fonts/finlay...

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. fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

#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

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. fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

Next 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. 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. 😃🇯🇵

Speaker for the #fontstandcon2026 : Co-founder of Just Another Foundry, Shoko Mugikura will examine why rounded sans carries authority in Japan, tracing its roots in calligraphy, signage, and multiscript typography — and why it means something very different outside Japan. fontstand.com/conference

LTR Limited Grotesque®: Probably never at Monotype, but available at letterror.com/limited/ and FontStand. Variable weight humanist sans. More flavor, less baggage. #fonts #typography #lettering #sans

NEW: LTR Limited Grotesque from LettError Type is a beautifully drawn, semi-informal, low-contrast, illustrative humanist sans serif family with steeply angled italics, in two variable styles, with unexpected extra tails, curves, and characteristic details to stand out. fontstand.com/fonts/ltr-li...