2024 Gerard Unger Scholarship results

The annual Gerard Unger Scholarship helps promising typeface design students develop their careers immediately. TypeTogether’s aim is to enable exceptional projects started during a course of study to be finalised and published commercially as soon as possible after the end of their course. This year 63 submissions with 10 different scripts flowed in from all over the world prior to the deadline.

TypeTogether is happy to announce the 2024 Gerard Unger Scholarship winner: the Dargon font family by French native Anne-Dauphine Borione from KABK’s TypeMedia programme. “We particularly relish Dargon’s fantasy theme,” said Veronika, “and its fresh and contemporary take on an uncial style. The family is idiosyncratic and yet functional, combined with a warm and approachable serif.”

Merits

The six promising typeface projects receiving TypeTogether’s merit award are (alphabetically): Citadel by Guocheng Xin from China; Dilinh by Đông-Trúc Nguyễn from Vietnam; Dulungan by Jad Maza from Philippines; Lezarde by Lucas Voilquin from France; Malinali by Sandra Morales from Mexico; and Tarisel by Martin Brendecke from US.

These merit winners will be receiving a copy of our book, Building ligatures: the power of type, and Veronika and José will reach out to them soon to offer their insights on taking their projects to the next level. Congratulations to these winners!

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