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Merwede Sans from Bold Monday.
Gagneur from Tiny Type Co.
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.
Milgram from Signal Type Foundry.
Mitch Paone on stage at the Fontstand Conference 2025 in The Hague. Photo: Tom Brown.
Clarinetta from supertype®, designed by Jürgen Huber.
Chairman Display from Typotheque.
Canela Arabic from Commercial Type.
Ornamented, from Robert Besley’s Fann Street Foundry. Published around 1860.
Ragu Pro from Nova Type Foundry.
JAF Globus from Just Another Foundry.
Kuhlman by David Jonathan Ross.
MD UI XS (top), MD UI, and MD UI XL (bottom), from Mass-Driver.
CoFo Sans Semi-Mono from Contrast Foundry.
Gregory Text from TypeMates
Francesco Franchi opened the conference with his presentation about news design on Friday night. Photo: Norman Posselt.
Voland from CAST designed by Luciano Perondi.
Tony Brook, Marta Cerdà Alimbau, Francesco Franchi
AM Toscana, AM Tobruk, AM Radio, AM Macallè, AM Impero, AM Futurismo, AM Appennino, and AM Aosta from CAST.
Exact from Signal Type Foundry.
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.
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.
Finlay Sans from supertype®.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LTR Limited Grotesque from LettError Type.
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.
Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich are co-founders of Moniteurs, a Berlin studio specialising in information design and wayfinding. They will explore how typography at airports evolves over decades, balancing long-life wayfinding systems, changing technologies, and the identities of complex global hubs.
Tiny Grotesk Italics from Tiny Type Co.
Martin Wenzel is a partner at supertype®, 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.
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.
Francesco Franchi is an Italian journalist and graphic designer, and Deputy Creative Director at La Repubblica. He will discuss how editorial design turns news into experience, drawing on major newsroom redesigns, data, and narrative-driven visual journalism.
Sponsor a student ticket for the Fontstand typography conference in Berlin! #fontstandcon2026
Fontstand International Typography Conference, April 10–11, 2026, Berlin, Germany.
Zed Round LCG from Typotheque.
Zed Display from Typotheque is part of the Zed system superfamily.
Fontstand virtual gift cards are available in values from €10 up to €1000 ($10–1000), good towards the rental of any font we carry. To purchase a gift card, just fill out the order form.* (No account is necessary, but if you have one, we can autofill the form with your account information.) To redeem a gift card, just open the Fontstand app, log in to your account and enter the code when you rent your next font.
Some of the newest Storm Type Foundry additions on Fontstand, specimen designed by František Štorm.
Atica from R-Typography.
Pim from Bold Monday, designed by Pieter van Rosmalen.
Weymann Serif from TypeMates.
Cy Curly from supertype®.
Acrylic Ortho (top), Pseudo (middle) and Mono, from The Pyte Foundry
James Mosley at St Bride in 1983 examining a print of five ornamented letters from the Pouchée foundry. Photo: Ian Mortimer.
Brilly from supertype®.
Six-line specimen of DJR’s Club Lithographer typeface.
Riant Display from Kontour, designed by Sibylle Hagmann.
Yuni Grotesque from TypeMates.
29LT Idris Pure and 29LT Idris Round.
Otta from PampaType.
Ticker Hi Res and Ticker Lo Res from Teeline Fonts.
NN Éditeur Semi, Éditeur Italic and Éditeur Serif.
Slight Chance Regular and Slight Chance Mono from DJR.
Fit Tamil and Fit Devanagari from DJR.
AM Serie 605, AM Sirte, AM Liguria.
Gregory Grotesk from TypeMates.