Type Directors Club 2019 Type Competitions

has announced its call for entries for the

and the

, a celebration of the world's best typography.

You are welcome to enter original professional work designed in

or unpublished student work designed for a class assignment in

. Students are also welcome to enter either personal or paid work (

) into the Professional category.

Any new typeface designs produced or published between

and

are eligible. Typeface designs may be submitted by anyone involved in their design, production, or marketing. Extended or revised versions of older, previously published type designs are not eligible. This includes upgraded typefaces with newly expanded glyph sets in the original script.

appoints new chairs to oversee each of these competitions each year.

: For this coming year, the chair is Bobby C. Martin Jr. The Communications Design judges are Karin Fong, Leo Jung, Eddie Opara, Paulina Reyes, Ian Spalter, Annik Troxler, and Zipeng Zhu.

: Nina Stössinger will chair this year’s typeface competition. The Typeface Design judges are Nicole Dotin, Tobias Frere-Jones, Erin McLaughlin, and Kristyan Sarkis.

An Early Bird discount on entries is available through

, but regular entries are accepted until

. After that, we will accept late entries (

) until

.