Wrapping up 2025

New Typefaces in 2025

2025 saw three major new type family releases:  Futura®100, our reimagining of Paul Renner’s iconic geometric script in 12 global scripts;  Poltik, Patrycja Walczak’s fun and funky reversed contrast sans serif family; and Sakkal Saad, Dr Mamoun Sakkal and Aida Sakkal’s friendly, handwritten Arabic Naskh family.

Futura®100 was a huge undertaking for TypeTogether working in partnership with Bauer Types, involving more than 30 type designers, consultants, graphic designers and experts to create the first release of 12 global scripts: Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Khmer, Lao, Myanmar, Latin, PanAfrican Latin, and Thai. And this was just the first release – in 2026 we will release 11 additional scripts which will include support for major Indic scripts, as well as Simplified Chinese and Hangeul, covering more than 90% of the world’s population in total.

Patrycja Walczak’s Poltik won the Gerard Unger Scholarship in 2023, drawing upon Polish design from the 1960s and 70s. In fact, the initial inspiration came from the numbers on a clock Patrycja found in her grandfather’s drawer. And while  Poltik ’s display cut is a joy to behold, its reversed contrast text weights are proving to be useful across a wide range of use cases. The family is ideal for branding, signage, and packaging, presenting and updating a retro vibe.

Dr Mamoun Sakkal and Aida Sakkal’s Sakkal Saad font family was inspired by the expressive typography of Middle Eastern newspapers, magazines, and posters from the 1960s to 1980s, and captures the vibrancy and optimism of the era while adding a contemporary twist. Sakkal Saad and Sakkal Saad Poster also make extensive use of OpenType features, stylistic sets, and contextual alternates to provide graphic designers with a wealth of options for layouts.

Primarium

We continued work on our Primarium project to map how handwriting is taught to students in countries around the world. 2025 saw the project publish an acclaimed book, an accompanying exhibition, as well as a number of awards for the project itself as well as the two type families that emerged from Primarium’s research (details on the awards below).

The book ‘ Primarium: Handwriting education across cultures and continents, ’ edited by Pooja Saxena and José Scaglione, was published in late June. In addition to providing a comprehensive overview of handwriting models in numerous countries, the 360-page book is sumptuously designed and printed. A few copies are available for purchase from our web store.

Typetogether Premier

For years our free, invitation-only microsite, TypeTogether Premier, has focused on serving agencies and other creative organisations. We are currently woking on updating our main website, including Premier, with greater functionality to serve you better: the possibility to easily download test fonts with reduced character sets, and continuing relationships with branding agencies, publishers, and graphic design studios.

What’s included in your free Premier membership? You can download all our retail fonts for testing purposes, get access to beta fonts during their creation, and free typographic services. If you think you or your company may benefit from this service, email us at [email protected] and we’ll get right back to you.

Content

We published a wide variety of educational articles, interviews, and other interesting pieces on our blog. Here are some highlights from 2025.

Interviews & articles
Many companies’ pain points are in licensing typefaces and in working with multiscript typography. In connection with our Futura®100 release, we explained our approach to type licensing, and how our   Futura®100  release provides companies with consistent branding, reduced administrative burden, and predictable costs. We also made the case for the benefits of multiscript typography, especially for businesses seeking to expand beyond their own borders.

We also published interviews with  Gerard Unger Scholarship winners to give a closer view to their approach to their work. We found out that 2025 GUS winner Manau Quellec’s NEWZ type family was inspired by his time in London and by British newspaper culture. We also found out Manau is a football lover, and started a football league for French art and design schools that has now grown into a conference — read the full interview here. 2024 Gerard Unger Scholarship winner Anne-Dauphine Borione about their winning Dargon type family, inspired by the world of fantasy. “I believe typography is a fantasy, an artistic endeavour, a universe in itself,” she says in the interview . “Type enhances my reality, it is a conduit for enchanting myself, a portal to realms yet unseen. One might see type as purely utilitarian; I see it as a powerful source of magic.” We couldn’t agree more.

Finally, we also published a fascinating interview with the New Zealand artist Anton Hart , who uses our Bree typeface to create sculptural totems that spell out messages. Hart’s work takes Bree into a tangible realm, and it’s inspiring to see our type used in this way.

Type in use
What’s another word for thesaurus? One person who might know is George Frederick, the Experience Design VP for dictionary.com. They chose our LFT Etica typeface for the website’s rebrand. He goes into detail about the rebrand process in the interview, and also had this to say: “The next-level quality of the typefaces plus the value of TypeTogether’s partnership are well worth the cost.” This put some crimson in our cheeks. 

Awards

We were thrilled and humbled to see the Primarium project receive such acclaim in 2025. The Primarium project itself won a gold at the European Design Award in recognition of its excellence in depth and breadth of information, as well as its simple presentation. The project also won a gold at the Indigo Awards in Digital Design for Social Change and a silver for website design (the site was done by our collaborators Elena Ramirez and Octavio Pardo at Ashler Design, and we couldn’t be prouder).

But the real star of the awards season was  Playwrite , our type engine for handwriting education, which won an impressive string of awards: Premios CLAP, the TDC award, gold at Joseph Binder, gold at ED-Awards, and the yellow pencil from Design & Art Director (D&AD). What is even nicer is that both of the typefaces to emerge from the Primarium research, are available as free downloads from Google Fonts: Playwrite and Playpen Sans .

Playwrite wasn’t our only Type Directors Club winner in 2025: Emma Marichal ’s Ploquine , which won the 2022 Gerard Unger Scholarship , was selected for a TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence.  Ploquine  also received a merit at the Hiiibrand Awards in 2025.

Printed matter
TypeTogether produced quite a few printed works in 2025, all of them impeccably designed and printed, if we say so ourselves. In addition to the aforementioned  Primarium: Handwriting education across cultures and continents , TypeTogether published a book looking back on 10 years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship. Titled Letters for the future: Ten years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship , the book features interviews with scholarship recipients and provides an introduction to their excellent work.

In terms of specimens and catalogues, typophiles will appreciate the gorgeous Adelle Constellation type specimen, which brings together all of Adelle’s variants and scripts under the theme of astronomy. We also produced trifold specimens for Atlante, Aeroplan, Chaco, and Lektorat, a poster for Tablet Gothic which quotes Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, as well as a poster featuring Patrycja Walczak’s Poltik type family, a vibrantly colourful silkscreen poster, our first ever, available in a hand-numbered limited edition of 200 copies.

Videos
One of the joys of working at TypeTogether is seeing Dr. Cecilia Brarda ’s award-winning motion design work on our new type releases. Don’t miss the videos she created in 2025 for Futura®100, Poltik, and Sakkal Saad, and many others .

COMMUNITY: EDUCATION, TALKS & WORKSHOPS

We consider education to be a key part of our mission, and 2025 saw a number of activities related to the Primarium project, as well as other workshops and publishing activities. We look forward to continuing this commitment in 2025.

Milestones
2025 saw comings and goings. We were very sad to say goodbye but not farewell to graphic designer Rabab Charafeddine. And we were thrilled to welcome aboard sales and client liaison Agyei Archer. And there were two babies born to team members this year, which is wonderful!

Gerard Unger Scholarship
For the 11th edition of TypeTogether’s Gerard Unger Scholarship, we received 49 submissions from 47 designers living all over the world — representing 27 schools in 16 countries, and two in hybrid mode (online + in-person). Thirty-one of the families were single scripts and 18 were multiscript, showcasing nine different scripts (Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hangeul, Hebrew, and Latin).

The winner of the 2025 Gerard Unger Scholarship was Newz, by Manau Quellec . This demi-slab family resonated wtih the TypeTogether team, and we’re already working with Manau to release Newz.

More than just the winner, we had some amazing submissions that are worthy of significant recognition and a little something extra from the team. The four promising typeface projects receiving TypeTogether’s merit award are (alphabetically): Aksan by Yaprak Buse Çağlar, Manik by Arnab Chakraborty, Venusville by Lee Qiu Wen, and Zofia by Agnieszka Drozd.

 

Meetings and travels
TypeTogether is a virtual organisation, meaning that our team does not get too many opportunities to meet in person in large numbers. That is, except for our annual meeting. 2025 saw the team return to Vallfort, Spain, for an intensive but fun and incredibly rewarding week of meetings, hands-on work, relaxation, and camaraderie under the Catalan sky.

Workshops & talks
Our team was in a lot of places in 2025 for workshops and presentations. How many? Here’s a quick chronological rundown:

🇹🇭 BITS11 in Bangkok (13-16 February) with José Scaglione, Veronika Burian, Pooja Saxena
🇳🇱 Fontstand in The Hague, (14-15 March) with José, Veronika, Linda Kudrnovská, Nina Faulhaber, Patrycja Walczak, Anne-Dauphine Borione, Anya Danilova, Emma Marichal, Elena Veguillas
🇦🇷 International Book Fair in Buenos Aires, 2(3 April) with Dr. Cecilia Brarda 
🇦🇷 Type in Motion in Buenos Aires, Argentina, (24 April) with Cecilia
🇩🇰 ATypI in Copenhagen, (22-26 April) with José, Veronika, Patrycja
🇩🇪 DIVE ’25 in Munich, (8-10 May 2025) with Veronika
🇬🇧 D&AD Festival in London, (21-22 May) with José, Veronika and Agyei Archer
🇫🇷 TypeParis Now 25 Conference in Paris, (31 May 2025) with Veronika
🇺🇸 Letterform Archive in San Francisco, (30 June 2025) with José and Veronika
🇸🇮 European Design Festival in Ljubljana, (5-8 June) with Agyei
🇦🇷Tipos y Letras in Rosario, Argentina, (22 August) with José
🇪🇸 TypeTogether annual meeting in Vallfort, Spain, (September 1-7) with José, Veronika, Linda, Nina, Patrycja, Anne-Dauphine, Elena, Felicia Priscillya, Douglas Arellanes, Yorlmar Campos, Josh Farmer, Joancarles Casasin, Anagha Narayanan, Xicheng Yang, Arnab Chakrabroty, Agyei, Pooja — and of course Tiki and Federica
🇦🇷 Universidad Nacional del Litoral, in Snata Fé, Argentina, (4 September) Cecilia

In addition, the team had the following activities:
Veronika was part of the jury for D&AD Typography and Lettering, as well as TDC Tokyo.
Elena gave a presentation at the peer-reviewed conference Typography Theory Practice, focused on the struggles of a design practice PhD student and also organised two exhibitions and two talks introducing her PhD research in London and Madrid, ‘ Trumans through practice’.

Yorlmar gave a lecture for the diploma course in type design and production in Mexico (dDpT) on November 15, titled «Atlante: The Cartography of the Word».

Patrycja gave a talk about Poltik in the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw on 24 October.

Cecilia and José participated in the MA in Editorial design in-person sessions in Santa Fe, a programme TypeTogether sponsors through a scholarship.

The exhibition Linda Kudrnovská co-curated, ‘Identity: The Story of Czech Graphic Design’, ended its highly successful run at the Kampa Museum in Prague in February, and a traveling version was shown at the Czech Centres in London, Taipei, Hong Kong, Warsaw, Tokyo, Brussels, and Sofia. Linda, Filip Blažek, and Studio Mowshe were awarded Graphic Designer of the Year in the 2024 Czech Grand Design awards. The companion seven-part television series was translated into English by our social media manager Douglas Arellanes and you can watch it here .

Pooja’s new book is coming out in December 2025 titled India Sstreet lettering. She gave a talk titled ‘India street lettering: A typographic archive in the making’ (talk & exhibition), Naseem Iqtedaar Ali Literary Guftugu at the Mahindra Sanatkada Lucknow Festival. She was a speaker and contributor for ‘The past is always present: 100 tens’, at the Letterform Archive, and also organised a type walk in Delhi to complement Instituto Cervantes of New Delhi’s exhibition Tipografía Iberoamericana. In addition, Pooja gave a talk at TypeLab Asia titled ‘India street lettering: Inside/out’, and at BLAG Meet: Inside Issue 06 titled ‘Describing signs’. She continued her sporadic and in-depth “Typographic eye” emails, more type walks through her city, and a few conference presentations throughout the year. She also has a not-well-enough-known passion project of a handful of zines, each focusing on specific typographic themes.
Yorlmar was one of the jurors (representing Venezuela) for the tenth edition of the Latin American biennial “Tipos Latinos”, which will be held at the end of March 2026.
Cecilia gave virtual talks at Chair of Typography at the University of Rosario, 28 May and at Chair of Typography at the University of Lanús, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12 June. She also gave a virtual talk titled ‘Typography above all’ at the International Congress of Digital Humanism, at Universidad de Tamaulipas, México, 2 October;
Azza facilitated several in-person workshops and talks at the Tipo-g design school in Barcelona. Joanca was also part of the Tipo-g school in Barcelona where he lectured on font technology.