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. 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. 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. We took measures that the fonts are not easy to copy, but the priority is that the fonts are easy to try and easy to license.Fontstand has introduced an innovative iPad app that lets users explore, filter, manage and use its extensive library of professional-quality fonts. "More and more foundries are relaxing their rules – 10 years ago, they would not even allow embedding fonts into PDF today with the advent of web fonts, many even give away free demos. We asked Bil'ak about that "Our focus was on making doing the right thing easy, rather than restrictions," he said. That protection on intellectual property is always a tricky balance make it too tough and you make it hard for designers to try and get fonts, but too loose and piracy can become rife. It gives us a way to let new user groups – particularly students, freelancers and small businesses – trial our fonts on projects while allowing us to protect our IP and our businesses more widely." Fontstand aims to support foundries, like ours, who employ highly skilled people to craft beautiful fonts with distinct stories. Jason Smith, the founder of Fontsmith, said, "Independent foundries are finding it harder and harder to compete with the monopolies of Monotype and Adobe Typekit. That dominance of Monotype in the type industry is clearly a concern for indies. Fontstand aims to support foundries in their fight with the big guys
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