Fontstand 2025: Celebrating ten years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship
- Date
- May 2025
- Author(s)
- Josh Farmer
At the 2025 Fontstand conference in The Hague, TypeTogether marked ten years of their Gerard Unger Scholarship with a talk, a book, an exhibition, and a rare reunion of winners. The annual scholarship provides mentorship, a stipend, and a typeface release to one promising student. "The overwhelmingly positive feedback is a great encouragement to keep going," said Veronika Burian, as five winners gathered to celebrate in person.
And at the 2025 Fontstand conference in The Hague, José and Veronika marked the tenth anniversary of TypeTogether’s Gerard Unger Scholarship with several activities, including a talk that looked back over the scholarship’s history. The annual Gerard Unger Scholarship provides a promising type design student with mentorship as they complete their winning project, a stipend, and the release of their typeface through TypeTogether. Merit winners also receive feedback and encouragement on their designs.
To mark the tenth anniversary of the scholarship, TypeTogether has published a book, Letters for the future: Ten years of the Gerard Unger Scholarship (order your copy here), and organised an exhibition featuring the work of both winners and merits. To top it off, five scholarship winners were able to come to the exhibition opening.
“The Fontstand event was very special for us,” Veronika said, “because we were able to present and publicly celebrate the projects of the scholarship winners while some of them were there. The audience could directly interact with the winners and ask questions, and our mentees could reap the fruits of their labour.”
“The overwhelmingly positive feedback we got from the attendees is also a great encouragement to keep going with the scholarship,” she added.
Fontstand is an annual typography conference where type designers and typographers from around the world for a packed two-day program of presentations and discussions. Click here to visit their website.
