More than two years ago we began our intense team research into how handwriting is taught around the (Latin-based) world. Once most of the research was completed for more than 40 countries, we announced the release of our Primarium.info website. We followed it up with the casual Playpen Sans typeface, which used some of Primarium’s practical lessons, and we hinted at more to come. Well, today is that day.

Along with our partners at Google Fonts, we are proud to announce our new Playwrite family: a free, versatile typeface for handwriting instruction, localised by nation and available on Google Fonts. Teaching handwriting in Slovakia, Nigeria, or Tanzania? Just download that family and start using it immediately in your lessons. Each family comes as a variable font or as the OpenType static files with the glyphs and letterforms that are most familiar to each country.

There’s way more candy in this typographical piñata, so open it for yourself, download the Playwrite families for free, and join us in celebrating all the colleagues who have given so much to this groundbreaking process.

We are in a constant state of evaluation and improvement to ensure our font families are in top shape for global use, including adding Vietnamese, more characters overall, and other typographic niceties in order to serve almost 300 languages.

Since Tablet Gothic was made 12 years ago, we recognised it would benefit from these upgrades, so we got to work on it. We are proud to announce a major upcoming expansion to Tablet Gothic! This headliner family is one of our largest, with almost-infinite variable styles or 84 predefined styles from which to choose. Tablet Gothic, an industrial 19th-century grotesque, now steps into the future. Take a peek at the upcoming expansion now and prep your fancy fingers for the free upgrade when it’s released!

We introduced you to Emma Marichal in 2022 when she won the Gerard Unger Scholarship for her Ploquine typeface, developed while studying at Esad d’Amiens under Sébastien Morlighem’s tutoring. After months of work to expand the family and perfect the variable fonts, we have just released it and hope you appreciate the same expressive joy and usefulness we found in it. Her video interview covers a bit of her history, her process, and her hopes for the Ploquine family.

Difficult environments deserve hope. Klabu creates sports leagues in these places, and they are using Lektorat to send out their message of hope in the strongest ways.

Klabu combines the reach of an NGO with the care of a social enterprise, using the power of sports to build clubhouses which support refugees. Klabu works with local communities around the world, setting up hubs for play, wellbeing, entrepreneurship, and education in some of the world’s most difficult environments. So no matter what circumstances surround the refugees, they can find relief, pride, and happiness through sports. We’re honoured that Klabu decided to use Lektorat’s big voice and presence to announce its own presence in these communities.