The second day offers a rich program of talks and presentations on various aspects of typography in print, motion design, and wayfinding. The event concludes with an exclusive conference party for all participants, with a choice of delicious finger food, where you can meet and interact with colleagues and presenters, followed by a relaxed dance party in the typical Berlin atmosphere.
Organized by Fontstand Cooperative, the typeface discovery and rental platform becoming a global, collectively owned and operated font distributor to provide an equitable platform for independent type designers and foundries.
Speakers
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Tony Brook
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.
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Marta Cerdà Alimbau
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.
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Francesco Franchi
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.
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Marko Hrastovec
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.
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Shoko Mugikura
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.
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Heike Nehl
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.
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David Pearson
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.
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Sibylle Schlaich
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.
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Ariane Spanier
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.
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Ferdinand Ulrich
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.
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Martin Wenzel
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.
Location
Berlin, Germany
Venue
silent green
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin
Germany
Accommodation
H+ Hotel 4Youth Berlin
Bernauer Straße 45
10435 Berlin
Schedule
| Friday, April 10, 2026 | |
| 14.00 — 18.00 |
Workshops
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| 14.00 — 18.00 |
How to make living making fonts
with Joana Correia (Nova Type Foundry) A workshop that challenges the myth that selling fonts isn’t worth it, showing type designers how to build sustainable business through clear strategy, strong positioning, smart marketing, and long-term community support. Costs €10 with the Fontstand conference ticket (max. 20 participants) |
| 14.00 — 18.00 |
Japanese Calligraphy
with Shoko Mugikura (Just Another Foundry) This workshop offers a hands-on introduction to Japanese calligraphy (shodō) using traditional brushes, ink, and paper. The session begins with a short overview of Japanese writing, followed by guided practice of basic strokes and simple characters. Participants will learn fundamental brush handling and posture. In the second half, the workshop introduces two calligraphy styles: Kaisho, the standard style taught in Japanese schools and the basis of many modern typefaces, and Tensho, the oldest style, known for its rounded and static forms. Costs €10 with the Fontstand conference ticket (max. 20 participants) |
| 14.00 — 18.00 |
Designing fonts with Fontra
with Just van Rossum This workshop offers a hands-on introduction to Fontra, a free, variable-first, browser-based font editor. You will learn about all the basic functions and how to work with variable components and other advanced features. Each participant will create a small variable font from scratch. Bring your laptop with a modern browser. Costs €10 with the Fontstand conference ticket (max. 20 participants) |
| 14.00 — 17.00 |
The Berlin Lettering walk
with Fritz Grögel & Florian Hardwig Join the opinionated typographers Fritz and Florian on an afternoon walk through the Wedding and Gesundbrunnen neighbourhoods, spotting and identifying typographical artefacts and retelling their stories. The talk is in English and lasts approximately 2–3 hours. Costs €10 with the Fontstand conference ticket (max. 20 participants) |
| 19.00 — 20.00 |
Registration
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| 20.00 — 21.00 |
Francesco Franchi:
How News Becomes Experience |
| 21.00 — 23.00 |
Opening reception
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| 23.00 |
End of the day
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| Saturday, April 11, 2026 | |
| 9.00 — 10.00 |
Registration
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| 10.00 — 10.10 |
Welcome
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| 10.10 — 10.40 |
David Pearson (Type as Image):
Redesigning Literary Classics |
| 10.40 — 11.10 |
Martin Wenzel (supertype®):
Designing Germany’s Government Typeface |
| 11.10 — 11.40 |
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| 11.40 — 12.10 |
Break
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| 12.10 — 12.40 |
Ferdinand Ulrich:
Dematerialised: Early Digital Type |
| 12.40 — 13.10 |
Marta Cerdà Alimbau:
Type to Image |
| 13.10 — 15.00 |
Lunch
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| 15.00 — 15.30 |
Shoko Mugikura (Just Another Foundry):
Rounded Sans and Public Typography in Japan |
| 15.30 — 16.00 |
Marko Hrastovec (Hot Type):
Modernism Wasn’t only Swiss |
| 16.00 — 16.30 |
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| 16.30 — 17.15 |
Break
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| 17.15 — 17.55 |
Tony Brook (SPIN):
Experimental lettering in practice |
| 17.55 — 18.30 |
TBA
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| 18.30 |
End
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| 19:30 |
Official Saturday closing party
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