Join us on Thursday for a free 50-minute online talk exploring the design and development of Terrassa, a typeface inspired by architectural lettering. 📅 19 June, 2025, 8pm Amsterdam time. Exclusively for Typotheque Club members* Become a member for free here. www.typotheque.com/club
Профиль
Kevin King
Профиль VivelySettler 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
This printed type specimen, designed by Manera Estudi, presents the background and design thinking behind the Terrassa typeface. It features an in-depth essay by Manuel Sesma, as well as a prologue text by Nikola Djurek. www.typotheque.com/books/terras...
Terrassa Display and Gradient both contain five variable axes. We considered providing traditional static fonts, but that would produce over 10,000 variations, which would overwhelm your font menu. Instead, we deliver Terrassa Display and Gradient as variable fonts. typotheque.com/fonts/terrassa
After five years of development, we are pleased to present our East Asian type collection for Chinese, Japanese and Korean text. www.typotheque.com/blog/collect...
Join us tonight at 8pm (Amsterdam time) for our new Typotheque Club talk on research into Thai script. We will also discuss a new collection of Thai fonts and upcoming Thai/Latin fonts. The webinar is free, you will get the online link after registering at Typotheque Club. www.typotheque.com/club
🚨 NEXT WEEK 🚨 Kevin King @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social lecture about Indigenous Language Support: A Design Process MARCH 21, 2025 2:30 to 4pm CET (Paris time) Online, in English 20€ More info and tickets at wordsoftype.com #lecture #indigenous #typography #indigenousscript #northamerica
Don't forget to book your ticket! If you can't make it to the live presentation, you'll still receive a private link to (re)watch it anytime! Lecture about: Indigenous Language Support, a design process, with @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social Tickets & Info at wordsoftype.com
Hello! Our first post on here is an account on why we decided to stop publishing and promoting typefaces for a while. tptq-arabic.com/blog/after_t...
Say hello to La Grotesque, a typeface with a vibrant Mediterranean flavour celebrating the interconnectedness of the French, Tunisian and Italian triangle's cultural heritage. La Grotesque is designed by Naïma Ben Ayed (Arabic) & Francesca Bolognini (Latin) tptq-arabic.com/blog/la_grot...
🚀 New release: While images provide a universal visual language, the perception of icon style is highly personal and needs to be tailored to specific contexts. Zed Icons offers a unique level of adaptability with three adjustable variable axes. www.typotheque.com/blog/zed-ico...
Reminders for WoT Events!! - Greek typography, w/ Irene Vlachou - Indigenous language support, w/ @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social - Font production & engineering, w/ Rosalie Wagner - Arabic typography, w/ Azza Alameddine Tickets & more info here: bit.ly/44AaU5r
Bridget Chase kicking off #FaceInterface with Indigenous North American Typography. Researching and documenting the encoding, keyboard, and typographic preferences of each community for their language & resolving issues. Communities now reclaiming ownership/decision-making of orthographies.
Bridget Chase: updated 5 existing typefaces to not only incorporate the new characters, but take into consideration the typographic preferences that communities have for their languages. Diacritic positioning is important and can be challenging. #FaceInterface
Bridget Chase: feedback from an elder on a prototype keyboard that "there is no f in my language, but there is in Facebook". Switching keyboards back and forth was a huge hassle. But other people also had strong feelings about not having any characters outside their orthography. #FaceInterface
Bridget Chase: 50% of all profits from Typotheque go to working on indigenous languages. All work done for free for those communities, but need support in external funding to scale the work out. #FaceInterface
Day 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. 👏👏👏
In December, we co-published a video together with Heiltsuk Revitalization to describe the work that we did together to add two new capital letters to the Unicode Standard for their language. To describe this effort in more detail, please read our blog post: www.typotheque.com/blog/new-uni...
New lecture: Indigenous Language Support, a Design Process. With @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social from @typotheque.com More info and tickets here: www.wordsoftype.com
Great tip from @mati.woke.cat: Settings > Appearance > Font and choosing "System" makes diacritics render properly on both Windows & Mac OS. Funny that @bsky.app says 'For the best experience, we recommend using the theme font' —the best experience for who? Not Indigenous language speakers! #langsky
You can hear audio files for pronunciation of the Haíɫzaqvḷa orthography here: www.firstvoices.com/hailzaqvla/a...
FirstVoices.comCheck this out on FirstVoices: Indigenous Language Revitalization Platformwww.firstvoices.com