2003 TDC Competition deadlines extended to Friday, 10 January 2003

Entry Categories :

Please select one subcategory from each of the following categories. The Jury and Chairman of the TDC2 2003 type design competition reserve the right to adjust the categorization of entries as they see fit and necessary.

Family (Fees) Category :

The Family categorization is to be used for the purpose of determining entry fees, in US funds. Typefaces may be entered as a single typeface or as part of a larger, related body of work.

Single :

Individual typefaces designed to stand alone, with no stylistic variants.

Family :

Typefaces that are designed to be used, and are submitted, in conjunction with stylistic variants such as roman, italic, and bold, or small capitals, up to and including eight variants, are considered a family.

Superfamily :

Typeface designs that comprise more than eight closely-related variants within the design parameters are considered superfamilies; this would also include pi and dingbats fonts that are stylistically related to the alphabetic or ideographic typeface designs.

Competition Category :

This category, based on the intended function of the submitted design, will determine the typeface design's area of competition.

Text designs :

Typefaces and type families featuring full character sets, intended for use in the composition of text for continuous reading.

Display designs :

Typefaces and type families featuring full or reduced character sets, intended for use in larger sizes rather than for body text.

Type systems :

Extensive groups of related typefaces featuring separate designs for text and display composition, or groups of related typefaces featuring designs belonging to different style categories, such as serif and sans-serif, serif and slab-serif. Digital fonts in Multiple Master or in OpenType format often fall within this subcategory.

Pi or ornament fonts :

Typefaces featuring special character sets for mathematical, phonetic, and other specialized applications, as well as dingbats, icons, symbols, and other pictorial items in a font format. Ornament and border designs are also included in this subcategory.

Script Category :

Latin :

Typefaces intended for use in Latin based orthographies have historically made up the bulk of typeface design submissions. For scripts with Latin-based orthographies that use significant additions and modifications to accommodate the script system, see also the Extensions subcategory of the Design category.

Non-Latin :

Typefaces created for alphabets or writing systems different from Latin, such as Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, or Korean, etc., are eligible, and should be entered in the appropriate Family, Competition and Design categories. As necessary, experts in the relevant non-Latin scripts maybe invited by the jury for consultation.

Support Materials for Rare Scripts :

For particularly rare and unusual scripts, support material may be sent along with the entry. These materials might include standardized or common renderings of the script, printed renderings of the script, or a photocopy of historical material that includes renderings of the script.

Support material :

• should be one (1) sheet only, maximum size US Tabloid or A3
• should be clearly marked as Support Material for the entry, e.g. :
  Single, Display, Mayan, Original : Support Material
• cannot be returned; do not send precious originals!

Pi :

Typefaces created for use in such fields as music, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and other areas that require specialized character sets. Please indicate, in the front entry markings, the field for which the typeface was designed.

Design Source Category :

Student Design :

There is no separate category for student type designs; they should be entered in one of the design subcategories.

Original :

All typeface designs are presumed to be original and to not be derived from pre-existing designs or from existing typeface font software. In the case that the submitted design is derived from pre-existing material, the typeface would fall into the Revivals and Extensions subcategory, and so under that category's requirements.

Custom :

Custom or proprietary typefaces that are designed for private use instead of resale are eligible, and should be entered in the appropriate categories. Custom designs may include typefaces produced for use by a specific designer or a design firm, as well as those for corporate or other non-design clients. If the type design is based on an existing typeface, please identify the design source; please specify the intended use, without identifying the client; for example, "a text typeface created for a financial newspaper."

Revival or Extension :

Typeface design revivals that are based on and closely follow the designs of pre-existing typefaces, and designs that are extensions of existing faces whether by the enlargement of character sets and styles, weights, and optical sizes, etc. must be accompanied by assurances that the revival or extension is authorized and approved by the originator of the design or by the current holder of the rights to the typeface designs.