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18/12/2025

New SuFo Insight Alert

Font licensing is often misunderstood and that misunderstanding shapes how type is used across the web, apps, and media.

In this SuFo Insight, TypeType reflects on how IP protection can be handled ethically and strategically, turning unlicensed use into awareness, respect, and long-term collaboration.

📘 Read the full insight: https://buff.ly/PizrHGU

28/11/2025

🎙 Talking with GRANSHAN Script Experts - Armenian Script Edition

Meet Khajag Apelian, a lettering artist and type designer working across Armenian and Arabic scripts. His practice bridges design, research, and education, always asking how typography can keep cultural traditions alive - and relevant today.

In our conversation, Khajag reflects on:
✦ the deep cultural layers of Armenian script
✦ the challenges of visibility, education, and infrastructure
✦ how diaspora and local traditions shape the script differently
✦ why Armenian isn’t a “niche” script but a living, evolving system
✦ the urgent need for better digital support and global awareness
Khajag’s insights remind us how design communities sustain scripts — and why long-term commitment matters more than visibility alone.

👉 Read the full interview on GRANSHAN: https://buff.ly/cenjK2Z

27/11/2025

Armenian Script × Typography travels to Seoul.

On 30 November, the National Hangeul Museum will host a special lecture by Edik Ghabuzyan, co-founder and long-term vice president of GRANSHAN, titled “Armenian Script × Typography.”

Part of the museum’s annual international lecture series, the event strengthens global dialogue around writing systems.

Ghabuzyan one of the most influential figures in Armenian type design has created more than 300 typefaces, leads the Department of Script Development and Preservation at the National Book Committee of Armenia, teaches type design at the National Academy of Arts, and received the Movses Khorenatsi Medal in 2012.

This renewed collaboration, nine years after his previous lecture, highlights the National Hangeul Museum’s commitment to exploring world scripts beyond Hangeul and reflects the growing global visibility of Armenian typography.

GRANSHAN warmly congratulates Edik Ghabuzyan on this meaningful recognition.

21/11/2025

🎙 New Interview Series: “Talking with GRANSHAN script experts”

Meet Lara Captan, artist, astrophysicist, architect and Arabic type designer.

Founder of Ama Foundry, Lara blends art and science to create expressive Arabic typefaces rooted in history yet reaching for the future.
Discover her thoughts on Arabic script, the evolution of type technology, and her creative journey from Beirut to Amsterdam.

✨ Read the full interview on GRANSHAN: https://buff.ly/O7OZbG4

29/10/2025

Meet Eunyou Noh, Korean Script Chair and Type Design Director at Sandoll.

With a PhD in Hangul type design and a Master’s in TypeMedia from KABK, her work bridges history, craft, and innovation.

She founded NohType, releasing Optique, Sori, and the Hangul extension of the award-winning Climate Crisis Font (빙하체), and co-authored Glyphs Type Design - a book on Hangul and Latin type design written with Minjoo Ham.

From scholarship and teaching to typefaces and cultural projects, Eunyou’s work reflects GRANSHAN’s spirit: honoring script traditions while shaping their future.

17/10/2025

How do we name the shapes of our languages?

Every script carries its own anatomy, rhythm, and history.
Through the lens of Devanagari and Arabic, TypeTogether’s latest insight explores how designers are building a shared typographic vocabulary - one that bridges scripts, cultures, and design traditions.

Typography here is more than form. It’s cultural archaeology, uncovering how languages move, breathe, and connect.

🔗 Read the full article on GRANSHAN Insights: https://buff.ly/awRwVb2

15/10/2025

The Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow Type Design Incubator (KBI) invites students - especially those from Digitally Disadvantaged Language communities - to explore typography in a supportive online program.

KBI is powered by SILICON at Stanford University, in partnership with Words of Type and Letterform Archive. The program is where equity in type design meets the urgent need to preserve and advance digitally disadvantaged and underrepresented languages and scripts.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, November 14, 2025
COURSE BEGINS: JUNE 2026
ELIGIBILITY: Open to students 18 years and older anywhere in the World

🔗 Learn more https://kbitype.org

11/10/2025

Designing Greek Type: Of Myths and Scripts Crafting Type for Greek and Beyond

To design in Greek is to shape a living continuum from ancient inscriptions to the digital age. Greek typography moves with rhythm and emotion, balancing calligraphic flow with modern precision.

Unlike Latin’s geometric stability, Greek breathes through its curves, descenders, and texture. Designing for Greek means interpreting, not translating letting both scripts coexist in harmony, each with its own voice.

Discover how designers balance history and innovation in Greek type design now on GRANSHAN Insights 👉 https://buff.ly/heIxo1l

07/10/2025

As part of our ongoing community series, we’re pleased to feature Sovichet Tep - one of the most influential figures in Khmer type design today.

Starting as a self-taught designer in 2010, Sovichet turned his passion into a profession in 2018. Since then, he has created both open-source and custom typefaces for global and local clients such as Google, Grab, Xiaomi, Carlsberg Group, Peng Huoth Group, Cadson Demak, Typotheque, and TypeTogether.

Beyond design, Sovichet develops toolchains for testing and proofing complex scripts like Khmer and Myanmar, and actively contributes to Cambodia’s creative scene through writing, workshops, and talks on Khmer typography — helping nurture a growing community around the script.

01/10/2025

Futura®100: A Global Typeface for a Connected World
Marking nearly a century since its creation, Futura® is reborn through a remarkable global collaboration.

TypeTogether’s Futura®100 reimagines Paul Renner’s modernist classic as a truly multiscript system - crafted with native experts across 12 scripts, and expanding soon to cover over 90% of the world’s languages.

A celebration of design heritage turned global dialogue.
Read more on GRANSHAN Insights 👉 https://buff.ly/fEN6scg

30/09/2025

As part of our ongoing series of the GRANSHAN community, we’re pleased to feature Panuwat Usakulwattana - a senior type designer at Cadson Demak and a writer by trade.

Panuwat is also a typography educator, serving as a guest lecturer at several design institutes in Thailand. His contributions to Thai type design are far-reaching: from crafting Tatsana Suksa for the Tourism Authority of Thailand to creating typefaces for lifestyle brands like Panpuri. One of his most recognized achievements is Thutiya, which won first prize in the Thai category of the 2017 GRANSHAN Competition.

He was also part of the team behind the Google Fonts Thai Collection, advancing the accessibility and visibility of Thai script on the web. Among his many projects, Bree Thai stands out for delivering a spirited, friendly tone for branding and headlines while maintaining a welcoming rhythm in text. Influenced by the handwriting-inspired Bree Latin, Bree Thai’s modern loopless style gives it a lively and approachable character through its fluid shapes and balanced flourishes.

With his dedication to both design and education, Panuwat continues to shape the future of Thai typography - making him an essential part of the GRANSHAN community.

01/09/2025

Bridging Cultures Through Letters ✨

How can Thai typography be both modern and deeply rooted in its culture?

In our latest SuFo Insight, we look at ’s decade-long journey of designing Thai typefaces - built on research, local collaboration, historical study, and cognitive legibility.

👉 Read the full story: https://buff.ly/KZwwNYN

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