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Fontstand@fontstand· 20d

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...

Fontstand@fontstand· 26d

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

Fontstand@fontstand· 28d

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.

Fontstand@fontstand· Jul 6

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

Fontstand@fontstand· Jul 2

“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.

Fontstand@fontstand· Jun 30

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...

Fontstand@fontstand· Jun 23

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...

Clarinetta from supertype®, designed by Jürgen Huber.

Clarinetta Unicase from supertype®, designed by Jürgen Huber.

Fontstand@fontstand· Jun 16

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...

Fontstand@fontstand· Jun 12

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...

Fontstand@fontstand· Jun 11

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...

Ornamented, from Robert Besley’s Fann Street Foundry. Published around 1860.

Neueste schmale fette Zeitungs-Grotesque from Ferdinand Theinhardt’s typefoundry in Berlin, first published in 1885.

JAF Cupidus Extralight Italic, JAF Cupidus Text, JAF Cupidus Text Italic, JAF Domus Bold, JAF Domus Bold Italic, and JAF Domus Titling Extrabold.

From top to bottom: Aribau Rounded Black, Aribau Rounded Black Italic, ABC Diatype Rounded Medium, ABC Diatype Rounded Medium Italic, October Pro ExtraLight, and October Pro ExtraLight Italic.

Fontstand@fontstand· Jun 4

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

Fontstand@fontstand· May 28

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...

Fontstand@fontstand· May 22

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

Fontstand@fontstand· May 12

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...

MD UI XS (top), MD UI, and MD UI XL (bottom), from Mass-Driver.

Fontstand@fontstand· May 6

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...

Fontstand@fontstand· Apr 27

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...

Fontstand@fontstand· Apr 20

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-...

Francesco Franchi opened the conference with his presentation about news design on Friday night. Photo: Norman Posselt.

Ariane Spanier presented the process behind several of her recent projects, including a series of artistic statements about borders, designed to conceal a museum-construction site on Berlin’s Kulturforum. Photo: Norman Posselt.

Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich from the Berlin design bureau Moniteurs spoke about work they had undertaken for several airports, including Berlin Brandenburg Airport, which many attendees traveled through. Photo: Norman Posselt.

On Saturday morning, David Pearson gave attendees a look into his process behind the design of several book covers. Photo: Norman Posselt.

Fontstand@fontstand· Mar 23

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

Voland from CAST designed by Luciano Perondi.

Fontstand@fontstand· Mar 17

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

Tony Brook, Marta Cerdà Alimbau, Francesco Franchi

Marko Hrastovec, Shoko Mugikura @shokojaf.bsky.social, Heike Nehl, David Pearson

Sibylle Schlaich, Ariane Spanier, Ferdinand Ulrich, Martin Wenzel @supertype.bsky.social

Fontstand@fontstand· Mar 16

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

AM Toscana, AM Tobruk, AM Radio, AM Macallè, AM Impero, AM Futurismo, AM Appennino, and AM Aosta from CAST.

Fontstand@fontstand· Mar 11

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

Fontstand@fontstand· Mar 5

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 first day of the event starts with a series of practical workshops focusing on type design, calligraphy, and the business of type, with Joana Correia, Shoko Mugikura, Just van Rossum, Fritz Grögel & Florian Hardwig.

Fontstand@fontstand· Mar 2

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

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.

Fontstand@fontstand· Feb 26

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...

Fontstand@fontstand· Feb 24

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

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.

Fontstand@fontstand· Feb 18

#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.

Fontstand@fontstand· Feb 16

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

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. He will demonstrate that the concepts of neutrality, structure and function are never truly neutral.

Fontstand@fontstand· Feb 13

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

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@fontstand· Feb 11

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

Shoko Mugikura is a co-founder of Just Another Foundry, educated in Japan and the UK. She 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@fontstand· Feb 10

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...