After more than 15 years of experience in organising the only type design competition that deals exclusively with scripts beyond Latin, GRANSHAN will now expand its activities beyond the topic of type design to include the use of outstanding typefaces. The new competition will be held bi-annually in future, alternating with the GRANSHAN Type Design Competition. The start is planned for autumn 2025.
Eight exclusively selected mid-size type foundries will support this plan as part of the newly established GRANSHAN Supporting Foundries Club. The central idea is to involve these type foundries in the development of this competition and thus make a decisive contribution to its success. The basic idea of GRANSHAN as a community in which people, organisations and companies work together according to their possibilities is thus continued.
With their financial support, the members of the GRANSHAN Supporting Foundries Club ensure that the previously purely voluntary organisation can prepare and ultimately run the new competition with paid staff for the first time. Conversely, membership of the club gives the type foundries preferential representation in the competition.