Goudy Award Presentation
RIT's School of Design presents the 2026 Frederic W. Goudy Award during a public ceremony and reception on Friday, April 10. The university's long-standing honor celebrates outstanding practitioners in type design and related fields.
This year's award recipients are type designers and developers Georg Seifert (from Germany) and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer (Austria), originators of Glyphs, a game-changing font editing software noted for being greatly accessible to users interested in developing their own high-quality typefaces. One of Glyphs' trademarks is its support of digitally-disadvantaged languages — those not commonly available on major operating systems. The app promotes new typefaces in a wide assortment of native tongues.
“The two of them built this architecture for making fonts that are far and above anything ever made in digital typography,” said Steve Matteson, the Melbert B. Cary Professor in Graphic Arts who coordinated this year's Goudy Award selections. “It’s groundbreaking."
Award presentation
4:30-5:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, in Carlson Auditorium
Followed by a reception in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection
The next day — Saturday, April 11 — Seifert and Scheichelbauer will help lead a series of workshops for RIT students.
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