Futura®100 Multiscript

Veronika Burian, José Scaglione

Grand PrizeTokyo TDC2026Experimental TypographySwiss / International Typographic Style

Tokyo TDC · 2026

Veronika Burian, José Scaglione

Grand Prize · official source below

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Hook: The official asset is a four-panel presentation board, not one poster: a quoted statement panel, a script-specimen panel, a full-page glyph grid, and an application panel pairing an outdoor photograph with a tiled slogan matrix.
Hierarchy: The board reads panel by panel — statement, specimen, glyph grid, application — and within each panel one oversized element leads before the small annotation is read.
Energy: A single geometric sans is shown across many writing systems at large display size, with tiny labels beneath each specimen; the contrast is only between very large glyphs and very small captions, never mid-sized.
Transfer: When presenting a system rather than one artefact, lock a small palette and a two-step type scale, then let each panel change function but not rules; include one real-world application shot so the abstract specimen has evidence behind it.

Why it works

Repeating a fixed two-colour palette and one size relationship across four very different panel types makes a multi-script system legible as a single argument.

What to borrow

When presenting a system rather than one artefact, lock a small palette and a two-step type scale, then let each panel change function but not rules; include one real-world application shot so the abstract specimen has evidence behind it.

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CompositionOpen

The official asset is a four-panel presentation board, not one poster: a quoted statement panel, a script-specimen panel, a full-page glyph grid, and an application panel pairing an outdoor photograph with a tiled slogan matrix. Each panel is edge-to-edge with no shared outer margin, so the board itself reads as a grid of grids.

TypographyOpen

A single geometric sans is shown across many writing systems at large display size, with tiny labels beneath each specimen; the contrast is only between very large glyphs and very small captions, never mid-sized.

HierarchyOpen

The board reads panel by panel — statement, specimen, glyph grid, application — and within each panel one oversized element leads before the small annotation is read.

Image strategyOpen

Almost everything is letterforms; a single photographic panel of a real installation is the only image, used as proof of application rather than as decoration.

Color strategyOpen

One warm orange-red plus pale mint green against black and off-white, reused in different proportions per panel so the whole board holds together as one family.

Still to be written: Concept · Negative space · Texture · Production

Notes by POSTER INDEX — observational analysis from official Tokyo TDC asset

Source + details

Year: 2026
Source: Tokyo Type Directors Club
Edition: Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2026
Competition: Type Design
Award: Grand Prize
Country: Not recorded
Type: Not recorded
Theme: Not recorded
Style: Experimental Typography, Swiss / International Typographic Style
Typography: Not analyzed yet
Colour: Not analyzed yet
Density: Not analyzed yet
Imagery: Not analyzed yet
Provenance: Verified · official source
Source note: Client: TypeTogether · Category: Type Design
Image: External hotlink
Image note: Official Tokyo TDC asset · external hotlink · not owned by POSTER INDEX
Image credit: Tokyo Type Directors Club
Record ID: tdc-2026-001-futura-100-multiscript

Source URL: https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2026-results/

Image source: https://tokyotypedirectorsclub.org/en/news/tdc2026-results/

Designers: Veronika Burian · José Scaglione

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