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GRANSHAN

Discover the identity-building impact of scripts, typefaces, and typography with GRANSHAN, the world's only volunteer-run organisation showcasing high-quality global design diversity through competitions, conferences and exhibitions.

Bloom Award

Your script, judged by people who actually read it.

Captured at the close of the 2022 conference and ceremony. Image by Michael Bundscherer.

GRANSHAN is the hub for global visual identity—focused exclusively on scripts beyond Latin. We celebrate typefaces and typography, design and communication that enable communities to develop culture and enterprises in a balance between local, regional, and global.

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13th Type Design Competition

Base is the type design competition. It looks at the font: glyph construction, spacing, rhythm, how scripts work together inside a type system. Submit a typeface, a type family, a multiscript system, a revival, or a custom font. The judging question: how well is this typeface designed? Base returns in 2027.

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1st Communication Design Award

Bloom is the communication design award. It looks at typefaces in use: posters, campaigns, packaging, apps, motion, exhibitions, branding, editorial, experimental work. A script beyond Latin has to be central to the project. Every entry is reviewed by experts who read the script. 150+ jurors across 8 Script Groups and 9 media categories.

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»GRANSHAN thrives on the enthusiasm of the global type design and typography community. Every GRANSHAN programme is the joint effort of people and companies who are committed to it. The offerings are therefore also an expression of the design industry’s ability to show solidarity. «