The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia and the Typographic Society Munich (tgm --- Typographische Gesellschaft München) organized Granshan 2010, The 3rd International Eastern Type Design Competition, which was created especially for Armenian, Cyrillic and Greek fonts. Edik Ghabuzyan and Boris Kochan were the big bosses. The jury consisted of Gerry Leonidas, Oliver Linke, Hrant Papazian, Carolyn Puzzovio and Manvel Shmavonyan. The outcome:

• Armenian text typefaces: 1. Arek (Khajag Apelian, Netherlands). 2. ASF Angela (Anzhella Poghosova, Armenia). 3. Fedra Sans Armenian (Peter Bilak, The Netherlands, and Tatevik Aghababyan, Germany).
• Greek text typefaces: 1. Ginnasio (Riccardo De Franceschi, Italy). 2. PF Encore Sans Pro (Panos Vassiliou, Greece). 3. Mantika Sans (Jürgen Weltin, Germany).
• Cyrillic text typefaces: 1. Florian / Geo Text (Aleksey Vanyashin, Russia). 2. ASF Angela (Anzhella Poghosova, Armenia). 3. Adamant Pro (Vedran Erakovic, Serbia).
• Display typefaces: 1. PF Regal Pro (Panos Vassiliou, Greece). 2. PF Champion Script Pro (Panos Vassiliou, Greece). 3. Zadie (Henrik Kubel, Denmark and UK).

EXTERNAL LINKS
Granshan 2010
Google search page

INTERNAL LINKS
Armenian fonts ⦿ Past type competitions ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿

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