Settler Type Designer & Researcher at Typotheque // Fonts // Indigenous Language Support // Calligraphy // Dad // Tkarón:to-Toaando (Toronto) // (he/him) https://www.typotheque.com/ https://www.typotheque.com/research/north-american-research
I'm looking so forward to speaking about a design process that we follow at @typotheque.com for supporting Indigenous languages in North America through type design for @wordsoftype.com ! Get your tickets if you haven't yet!
Words of TypeLAST DAYS to book your ticket to Kevin King’s lecture about Indigenous (North America) languages and the design process of typefaces supporting them! Tickets at wordsoftype.com 🤩😎🤓
My colleague the wonderful Héctor Mangas Afonso will be speaking tomorrow about Type Design for low vision readers at the AIGA Los Angeles. All ticket proceeds will go to the LA Fire efforts.
TypothequeOur in-house cognitive scientist Héctor Mangas Afonso will be speaking tomorrow at the AIGA Los Angeles about the Type Design for Low Vision Readers. You can get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/type-desig...
So grateful that the wonderful @bchasemadethis.bsky.social was at Face/Interface to kick off the conference with a talk about the work we are doing together with our teammates on our @typotheque.com Indigenous North American Type project!
Marta BernsteinDay 1 of Face/Interface2025 kicked off with a GREAT talk by @typotheque.com Bridget Chase: Typotheque Indigenous North American Type Research. Like you needed more reasons to buy their fonts. 👏👏👏
So excited that the wonderful @bchasemadethis.bsky.social will be at Face/Interface today to present on our ongoing work together on our Indigenous North American Type project @typotheque.com. If you can't attend in person, you can join the free live stream – don't miss Bridget's talk at 9am PST!
Bridge Chase✈️ I am on my way to Stanford to present at Face/Interface 2025. Feeling very privileged to be in the same room as so many amazing folks working in #language #technology! While in-person tickets are sold out, you can still register for free to view the event livestream — link is below! #langsky
I'm so excited to share this wonderful article that @markturin.bsky.social, N̓a̓ṇ̓gáinúx̌v, @bchasemadethis.bsky.social and I co-authored together for @theconversationca.bsky.social, speaking about our work together to solve digital language support issues for Haíɫzaqvḷa (Heiltsuk language).
The Conversation CanadaWhy is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?
What a big win for the Haíɫzaqv community towards their language reclamation and revitalization efforts! It is an honour to collaborate with Heiltsuk Revitalization in partnership towards efforts like this that benefit the community. heiltsukrevitalization.com/unicode/
Haíɫzaqv Unicode 16.0 - Heiltsuk RevitalizationThis page introduces two new capital Unicode letters for Haíɫzaqvḷa which were published in Unicode 16. With this addition, the entire Haíɫzaqvḷa orthography can be written and read on all digital pla...heiltsukrevitalization.comTypothequeAs part of an ongoing partnership between Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation and Typotheque, governed by a Memorandum of Understanding, we are proud to announce that two new capital letters for Haíɫzaqvḷa (Heiltsuk language) have been formally published in version 16.0 of the Unicode Standard.
It was great to recently share about our work @typotheque.bsky.social in digital language support for Indigenous language communities in North America with PRINT Magazine for their Type Tuesdays feature today: www.printmag.com/type-tuesday...
Typotheque's Kevin King on Preserving Indigenous Scripts Through Typographic Support – PRINT MagazineAn interview with Typotheque type designer Kevin King on the foundry's project to support Indigenous languages through digital preservation.www.printmag.com