Either way, events like these - still small and casual enough - provide a rare chance for real conversations between (typo-)graphic designers, students and type makers and sellers, something we should maybe encourage and facilitate even more. Some may have found so many presentation on type design quite geeky to others it was a welcomed difference to other conferences that focus more on general graphic design or on academic research. The prevalent motif of the presentations was true “behind the scenes” insight into the work and lives of type designers and independent businesses, touching, among other things, on the discomfort of giving up design control with variable fonts, the less glorious parts of running a type business, font licensing, finding inspiration for your work amongst seemingly dead ends, developing your own tools to explore new creative directions, designing for different writing systems and matching different scripts, but all livened up by the zippy 5-minute talks in between that went as far as to propose eliminating all letters with diagonals from the alphabet. The theater-like Ateneu Commercial do Porto in the city center provided a charming backdrop - even winning this year’s conference-chandelier rating - and space for the packed program of 13 stage presentations and 13 interspersed “Tiny Talks” (one slide, 5 minutes). While the first Fontstand conference in 2018 came about as a foundry meeting first and conference second, this time the conference part was planned from the outset, largely organized by local type designer Dino de Santos (DS Type) and Fontstand’s Andrej Krátky and Peter Biľak. Each speaker seemed to speak a different flavor of English and some of the 200 people in the audience had traveled from as far away as Australia, Brazil or the west coast of Canada. Occasionally, the type and design scene can feel quite US-centric, but not at this event. Taking place one day before the European elections, it couldn’t have felt more international, more like a celebration of diversity and community. On Saturday, the second Fontstand conference took place in Porto, Portugal. With so many fonts to choose from, users will be glad to know that the iPad app offers the same search function as its desktop counterparts, so fonts can be filtered not only by traditional categories (serif, sans serif, slab, script, display, etc.), but also by visual attributes such as width, x-height and stroke contrast, as well as OpenType feature support and language support.Ĭo-founder Andrej Krátky adds: “We imagine that creative professionals and design enthusiasts will take advantage of the advanced possibilities of iPad to create their presentations, documents and graphics directly on the tablet, without the need to migrate projects across platforms.”ĭownload the App Fontstand iPad Font-install app Fontstand also offers a $4.99 iPad-only monthly subscription that gives access to its library of over 1600 font families supporting hundreds of languages from Abaza to Zulu.
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Users who rent fonts via the Fontstand desktop app for Mac or Windows will find those same fonts available on their iPads at no extra cost.
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The application is free to download via the App Store. Founded by active type designers, the company aims to benefit both font foundries and end users, expanding the market for high-quality, legally licensed typefaces.
With one click, users can rent fully functional fonts for 30 days at 10% of their normal retail price. In 2015 Fontstand revolutionized font licensing by offering short-term font rentals at attractive prices. Fontstand’s ambition has always been to introduce professional-quality typefaces to new audiences, and supporting iPadOS lets us reach many people who have never licensed fonts before,” says Fontstand co-founder Peter Biľak. “There are three times as many active iPad users as there are desktop Mac users. Since iPadOS now supports custom fonts, Fontstand is expanding its MacOS and Windows font rental system, allowing a growing number of compatible iPad applications (including Apple’s own Keynote, Pages and Numbers, as well as Adobe’s Photoshop) to access 15,000+ fonts from 50 renowned independent foundries. Fontstand has introduced an innovative iPad app that lets users explore, filter, manage and use its extensive library of professional-quality fonts.
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