It is our great honour to formally announce our partnership with the preeminent Chinese font foundry FounderType! While TypeTogether typefaces have been available in China as standalone families through FounderType for a while, our first official global collaboration is Adelle Sans Chinese — harmonising and bundling the FounderType Lanting Hei family with corresponding Adelle Sans styles. Adelle Sans Chinese ensures that all Chinese characters and all Latin characters aren’t just partners, but are equals within multiscript layouts, including punctuation. Founder Type is the most important font developer in China, with their typefaces being widely used in newspapers, advertising, books, packaging, mobile devices, television, games, software, branding, and so much more. And this is just the beginning.

Today we’re announcing the release of Portada Thai by Pilar Cano in concert with Veronika Burian and José Scaglione. Portada Thai is a modern looped font family that tames the screen with a warm tone. We’ve bundled the entire Latin family with it and included the dark and light icon sets. Check it out on our website type tester during your downtime and see how the screen has met its match.

Every business has a set of “best practices” they automatically begin at the start of each project. Nurses and doctors assess before making recommendations; graphic designers research before creating a logo; architects survey a site before drawing plans; and printers run a diagnostic on a digital file before doing a run of 5,000. So our multitalented friend (graphic designer, publisher, editor, writer, and more) from Prague, Filip Blažek, has put together a preflight cheat sheet to save you time, hassle, and of course money.

We’ve updated who can apply for the Gerard Unger Scholarship: any current or graduated student who has developed a typeface in a type design course within the past two years (2018–2020). Deadline extended to 15 June 2020. Deadline has been extended to 15 June, read more here.

The large multiscript, multi-award winning Adelle family is getting a delivery from the font stork soon: Adelle Mono is on its way! Due in one month, Adelle Mono will have mono-width and multi-width styles, several weights, and an italic companion. It’s been tested and approved for ease of use by coders, developers, and pro designers. Time to update your Sublime, Terminal, or your email to something fresh and focused — Adelle Mono is coming soon!

Sandoll, our valued Korean colleagues, are now carrying some of our typefaces on their Cloud Font Service. One benefit is the expert pairing of Sandoll and TypeTogether fonts as a combined product (though not in one font file so far). The subscription model offers flexible renting periods, easy access and updating, a hassle-free service, and a reasonable price per month (starting at €7,5). The Korean market now has easier access to affordable, quality Latin fonts — no language or commercial barrier!

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started reaching around the world, we’ve worked hard to provide a way to decompress, a way to get some font education, and an avenue for inspiration. Our team has worked remotely since our beginning 15 years ago, so Elena wrote about that. Part of that has been communicating over video chats, so Pooja wrote about that. And when things started getting serious we kicked into overdrive to produce a months-worth of Instagram font quiz content to keep things fun. (Find them in the Instagram Stories highlight). There you can check your knowledge on Latin or Devanagari type anatomy, differentiate scripts, see how well you know TypeTogether font families, and much more. Add to that our list of videos on Twitter (now a blog entry as well) and more to come in the next weeks, and you’ll see that we play hard and work hard. Join us!