Hundreds of font­heads will descend upon the quiet enclave of Buf­falo, NY next week for North America’s only annual con­fer­ence ded­i­cated to typog­ra­phy: Type­Con. FontShop is proud to be a peren­nial Type­Con spon­sor, and this year our founder Erik Spiek­er­mann will speak at the renowned Albright-​Knox Gallery on Friday, July 18.

There is still time to reg­is­ter for Erik’s talk and Type­Con as a whole. It’s one of the most afford­able design con­fer­ences in the world and it’s packed with valu­able and inter­est­ing stuff for anyone even vaguely inter­ested in type. But before you pull out that credit card: FontShop has a hand­ful of Type­Con tick­ets avail­able at no cost for our best friends. Who are our best friends, you ask? Who­ever emails us (select­ing “Mar­ket­ing queries” from the menu on the con­tact form) reveal­ing their favorite type­face avail­able on FontShop.com, along with the rea­sons why they love it so much or an exam­ple of the type­face in use. That’s it! First come, first served until the few tick­ets we have are gone. Update: The tick­ets are now all spoken for. Thanks for playing!