- * Indra Kupferschmid is a typographer and professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar. Hier sammeln sich Fundstücke und Texte.
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- Current favs
- Akzidenzschriften des 19. Jahrhunderts
- Notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk Part 2a – Timeline
- Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk Part 2
- Ekkehardt vs Eckmann – Plagiatsvorwürfe anno 1903
- On the topic of female speakers at conferences (again, sorry)
- Post-graduate courses in typeface design and research
- Why make something that isn’t great?
- Upgrade, but not all the way
- So many good webfonts!
- Some type genres explained
- The responsibilities of the graphic designer
- Typo 9010
- The Pyte Foundry
- Rabatte und Schrift-Trends
- Fonts In Use turned five!?
- Two tweets from my drafts
- Alphabettes
- Max Bollwage’s caricatures of type people
- Type excursion through Italy
- Flipped, droopy, “sign-painter” quotes
- The unforseen merits of girls’ school?
- Proposal:
- Female speakers at conferences
- Equality in our industry
- Typography on the Web
- Deutscher Gießzettel für Antiqua
- Udo Jürgens – Indra
- I had never loved Helvetica
- Live Type Research in Barcelona
- Typeradio Interview
- Students and font licenses
- Auto-optical
- The task of the designer is sometimes also to prevent things
- Mike
- Things in Use
- Die Römische Linkskursive
- hurst
- Typographic Chinese Whispers
- Sarre by Sascha Timplan
- Publishing
- My German Reunification
- The Ideal Type Newsletter
- End of Saarbatical
- I hacked my Messages
- Discounts
- Taking Over Type Foundries
- Interview-Fundstück von Mai 2009
- Typographers are scholars
- Alastair Johnston rants about Helvetica
- The Hamilton Woodtype Museum is the coolest place in type world!
- Notes from Lyon
- Type used in Germany’s best designed books of 2012
- On Responsive Typography
- Multi-axes type families
- Some notes on the history of Akzidenz-Grotesk
- Type classifications are useful, but the common ones are not
- sans serif
- Fonts and intellectual property
- Zur Erinnerung: Der erste Spiekermann’sche Lehrsatz
- Font Shopping 2011
- ATypI Konferenz Leipzig 2000
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Classifications
arecan be useful - Life wasn’t easy in phototype days
- Thank you
- On Webdesign and Education
- New Ideas for Book Typography
- Schrift
- De Luc-Truc by Lucas de Groot
- Theoretisch ist Kunst total sinnlos
- Where do you want to drive?
- New column: Ask Indra
- Sometimes less really is less
- Kurt Weidemann, adé.
- Wo bleibt eigentlich Font-Shopping Teil 3?
- Font-Shopping Continues
- Font Shopping (Part I)
- All One!
- Typography ≠ lettering ≠ writing
- The tab, scroll and swipe of the book designer
- Bauhaus, but not in Bauhaus
- The Difference between Humanist, Transitional and Modern Typefaces
- Werde Lehrer für Typografie und Schriftentwurf
- Zwiebelfisch
- noch mal Helvetica
- Have I told you recently, that I love Lars Müller Publishers?
- Typostammtisch am Freitag, 5. Februar
- Ein Schriftfächer-Klassifikations-Musterbuch
- Who is Gando?
- and the winner is …
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 3)
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 2)
- Die tollsten Schriften des Jahres* (Teil 1)
- Schriftklassifikation in a nutshell
- Webfonts – ein Selbstversuch
- fresh from Frankfurt book fair I+II
- I’m giving a talk
- Decorum im Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
- Exkursionen
- In Defense of Helvetica
Educational Discounts for Fonts
Free trial fonts
(usually OK to use in school projects but please check the respective license or terms, usually very limited character-set like upper and lowecase and basic punctuation):
Dalton Maag; full character-set
DJR Type (email, free for students for school projects, discount on classroom licenses)
Dunwich Type (no further info on site)
Fatype; limited character-set
Grilli Type; limited character-set
Indian Type Foundry
James Todd Design; limited character-set
Klim Type Foundry (only for testing and mock-ups)
Ludwig Type; limited character-set
Production Type; limited character-set
These typefaces from Storm Type (free for non-commercial desktop/print use)
Swiss Type Faces; limited character-set
Tiny Type Co; limited character-set
Typofonderie (10 typefaces)
Victoria Rushton; full character-set, upon request
These participating foundries on Fontspring ( see FAQ)
Discounts:
Adobe
Discount: Adobe Font Folio Education Essentials 11 $149
For: students and teachers with access to US Adobe store
(unavailable in DE)
How: submit proof of academic eligibility prior to shipment of order, unclear how to get it there
https://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-EDU&event=displayProduct&categoryPath=/Applications/FontFolioEduEssentialsSTE
Anatole Type
Discount: 50% on single styles, 70% on family packs (OTF only)
For: students
How: email Elena Albertoni a photo/scan of student ID and your full postal address for a receipt (VAT may apply).
Bold Monday
Discount: 20%
For: students
How: email your valid student ID to get a voucher code for discounted purchase on their website
Darden Studio
Discount: 50% on the entire library
For: students, teachers, and schools
How: individual students can purchase fonts through the store but have to register by filling out this form: “Applying for an academic discount”. Schools requiring licenses for more than 45 CPUs email Joyce Ketterer directly.
DSType Foundry
Discount: 50% off
For: students
How: contact them, unclear what the requirements are (info according to this tweet)
Fatype
Discount: 25%
For: students and teachers
How: contact them per email and send a proof that you are a teacher or student (valid student card or other document)
FontShop
Discount: 20% on all purchases
For: students or educators
How: Create a FontShop account with your uni-email address and send an email at info@fontshop.com. As soon as they confirm your eligibility, you’ll receive a 20% discount at checkout https://www.fontshop.com/content/fontshop-for-students
Fontstand
Discount: €20 credit for renting fonts per academic year
For: all enrolled graphic design (or similar) students
How: register on fontstand.com/students
Fonts.com
Discount: free fonts, discounted fonts and free access to Fonts.com Web Fonts service
For: students from participating schools
How: school has to sign up as a member educational institution, students have to sign up for fonts.com webfont subscription with school address, upon approval upgrade to free access to products and discounted fonts (oof)
http://www.fonts.com/content/learning/student-program
Fonts.info
Discount: 30% on all download products
For: students and teachers
How: upload ID via webshop
http://www.fonts.info/store/index.php/de/rechtliches/bestellinfos.html
Huerta Tipografica
Discount: 50% off (several typefaces for free on Font Squirrel)
For: students
How: Email a valid student ID to Sol Matas & Co and they will send you instructions
Kontour
Discount: 50% off
For: students
How: email proof of enrollment and student ID to Kontour / Sibylle Hagmann
Letra Type
Discount: the entire Galea Display family (four styles) for only $50
For: students
How: email Isabel Urbina your student ID
Liebe Fonts
Discount: 50% off on all typefaces
For: students
How: email Ulrike Rausch your student ID for a discount code.
Linotype
Discount: 20% on most fonts
For: students and teachers
How: register at linotype.com and email or fax student ID
http://www.linotype.com/5280/education.html
(This, presumably older page states a discount of 30% http://www.linotype.com/2158-16993/discount.html)
Ludwig Type
Discount: 50% off on the entire library
For: students
How: get in touch, e.g. by email, and send a student ID or similar (according to their FAQ page)
Mota Italic
Discount: 30% off
For: students and educators
How: contact them (info according to here)
Production Type
Discount: 30% off
For: students
How: email Production Type from your edu-email-account.
For schools, educational license for full catalog (unlimited users) for €3000
Storm Type Foundry
Discount: 50%
For: students, teachers, schools and educational instututions of any grade, worldwide
How: Limited to non-profit projects only. If you want to use the fonts after you depart the school, you must upgrade to our Standard License. Send a photo of your student/teacher ID card to sales@stormtype.com
Swiss Typefaces
Discount: any typeface for only CHF50
For: students
How: apply for the discount via this webpage
T.26
Discount: 40% on all fonts
For: students
How: email copy of school ID and full-time class schedule for current semester http://www.t26.com/about/student_discount
Typecuts
Discount: 90% discount (full families only)
For: students
How: email Andrea Tinnes a valid student ID, short description of the project the typeface is used for, and later samples of the work. For her typefaces licensed through Primetype, contact Ole Schäfer and receive free trial fonts for academic / non-commercial use.
Typerepublic
Discount: 50% on the basic license
For: students
How: email Typerepublic / Andreu Balius
Type Supply
Discount: 30% off
For: students (edu institutions can contact Tal Lemming for individually negotiated deals)
How: proof of student status by one of the ways described on this page
Type Together
Discount: 25% on all fonts; trial licenses upon request
For: students, teachers and schools
How: provide student ID or contact via school email address. Institutions who wish to license fonts for a whole class, 10–20 single styles, or more contact Veronika Burian & Co for an even larger discount. Typefaces can also be made available for free in certain cases if you provide a description of the project, sign a temporary license agreement, and later send images of the finished work.
http://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=carro/edit_sale
Typofonderie
Discount: 15% on all typefaces, 10 free trial fonts and some free fonts
For: students and academic staff
How: contact them from your uni-email-account or send a copy of your student ID. Temporary license can be arranged, contact Véronique Porchez to explain your project. Institutions who wish to license fonts for a whole class or school (10+ users), please also contact Véronique directly.
Typotheque (incl. Typonine)
Discount: 50% on the whole catalog for non-commercial use, upgradable
Who: students, teachers, educational institutions
How: email valid student ID https://www.typotheque.com/licensing/students
Upload work you did with the fonts to their fonts-in-use section and get a €20 voucher for the next order
Individually negotiated discounts upon request:
ARS Type offers discounts for educational purposes/academies (but not specifically for students), per request – starts at 25% (according to here)
Commercial Type (only large licenses for schools)
Elsner & Flake offers discount of undisclosed height and conditions (according to here)
Process Type Foundry (no discount for students/teachers but non-commercial classroom licenses upon request, more here)
MyFonts reports that about 1/4 of fonts are available for an edu discount (it varies by foundry). Discount is usually 15-20%. No information how to obtain discounts.
Typetrust (as mentioned here)
Typolar offers to schools, depending on the volume, up to 60% off. For nonprofit student projects free, “if we are convinced about motives” (according to here)
Underware (discount on complete library for recognized schools, see here)
Village (as mentioned here)
No discounts (according to the foundry):
Atlas Typefoundry
Colophon Foundry
Hoefler & Co
Klim Type Foundry
Optimo
Unlike previously stated, P22 seems to not offer any student discounts anymore
This page was last updated in May 2018. If the foundry you are looking for is not mentioned here, I didn’t find any info on discounts on the internet. Please contact them directly, and then tell us.