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...

Next speaker #fontstandcon2026 🇩🇪 David Pearson is a British designer specialising in typography-led print. He works with major cultural and commercial clients and will speak about redesigning literary classics, book covers as cultural signals, and typography as authorship. fontstand.com/conference

#fontstandcon2026 speakers Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich, co-founders of Berlin studio Moniteurs, will explore how typography at airports evolves over decades, balancing long-life wayfinding systems, changing technologies, and the identities of complex global hubs. fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

NEW: Tiny Grotesk from Tiny Type Co. now has italics across all styles! The regular-width italics are reliable but distinct, the narrow italics have a bit more flair, at a more subtle 10° angle, and the wide italics at a fast 24° angle are basically a whole new design. fontstand.com/fonts/tiny-g...

#fontstandcon2026 news: Martin Wenzel is a partner at @supertype.bsky.social 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. fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

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. fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

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. fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

The Fontstand conference is an opportunity for type creators to engage in dialogue with the wider design community. The community is at the heart of Fontstand, which is why we are converting it into a collectively owned font distributor. Together, we can do more! #fontstandcon2026

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.🙏

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. fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

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. #fontstandcon2026 fontstandcon2026.eventbrite.com

NEW on Fontstand: @typotheque.com's Zed superfamily is now complete with Zed Round, 9 subfamilies of various widths with a softer appearance making digital environments feel more welcoming and less formal. This brings the total number of Zed styles on Fontstand to 587! fontstand.com/fonts?search...

NEW on Fontstand is Zed Display from @typotheque.com, a prototypical sans for effective communication, and representing the essence of the Zed design concept – tightly spaced, to enhance its rhythm and impact, in a range of widths for unprecedented design possibilities. fontstand.com/fonts?search...

Are you looking for a last-minute gift for a typography friend? Fontstand Digital Gift Cards allow commercial use of the best quality fonts, and they never expire! Select your design, choose any card value, delivered instantly. fontstand.com/cards

NEW: Storm Type Foundry has just updated several fonts on Fontstand and added many more. Explore some reliable text faces like Bohemica, Hercules or Academica families, gothic-inspired Julinka, Wittingau and Dream Within A Dream or brilliant experimental display Mortal. fontstand.com/foundries/st...

NEW: Atica from R-Typography is an engineered German-inspired geometric typeface with a constructed appearance and clean aesthetics, but unlike the classical examples, it features non-circular-shaped O’s constructed with two vertically offset circles. Designed by Rui Abreu. fontstand.com/fonts/atica

NEW: Pim from @boldmonday.bsky.social is a digital interpretation of the iconic 20th-century Dutch shop window letterforms with distinct wide forms and ball terminals, adding an extensive range of lowercase, alternates, pictograms, ornaments, patterns, and ‘clip-on’ swashes. fontstand.com/fonts/pim

NEW: Weymann Serif from TypeMates is a text typeface for comfortable reading, building on typographic tradition with wide letterforms and open counters, balancing the tension between sharp and round, writing and discipline, detail and structure, in 6 weights & Italics. fontstand.com/fonts/weyman...

NEW: Cy Curly from supertype® is the curliest member of the Cy superfamily. Playful and full of surprises, it is perfect for setting pink headlines or ornamental one-liners that need a punch. Its nine weights include four additional stylistic sets of alternate glyphs. fontstand.com/fonts/cy-curly

NEW: Acrylic from The Pyte Foundry, inspired by Neo-Grotesque rationality but mixing in elements of uncertainty, comprises three families progressing from proportional (Ortho) to fixed-width (Mono) and stylistic sets bearing names such as Pervert, Skeptic, and Nihilist. fontstand.com/fonts?search...

Riccardo Olocco from CAST has written a heartfelt obituary about James Mosley. It touches a note that will hopefully resound with readers, whether they had the chance to be Mosley’s students or not. fontstand.com/news/essays/...

NEW: Brilly from supertype® is a display font family in three styles, blending retro charm with contemporary appeal, and intended for packaging and display use, with a subtle left-hand twist for added dynamism. Designed by Jürgen Huber. fontstand.com/fonts/brilly

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...