📅 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-...

What font users actually want: findings from Fontstand 2025 survey

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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

2026 Fontstand Conference, Berlin, Germany

Fontstand conference offers exciting two-day program full of practical workshops & presentations about various aspects of typography.

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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.

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