Digital type foundry founded in 1994 by John Hudson & Ross Mills. Tweets mostly by Hudson.
Islands in the Salish Sea, BC
Joined September 2013
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Short article, republishing a text I wrote for ISType in 2015, considering how we understand emergent properties, in type as in birds.
tiro.com/articles/reflection…
I have written up a @harfbuzz issue regarding support of jihvāmūlīya and upadhmānīya, including recommendations for handling the currently script-ambiguous Vedic Extension characters.
github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz…
New update to the Tiro Builder tool, fixing an issue with hinting in CFF fonts instantiated from CFF2 variable build streams.
Just finished testing it on a collection of complex Indic fonts build on-the-fly from multiple sources, which still feels magic.
github.com/TiroTypeworks/Tir…
Marwari ḍa is an outlier in the Devanagari script, having its stem connection to the head stroke on the left rather than on the right or centered.
Wondering if the positioning in the second row might be appropriate, and if anyone has examples to support either positioning?
ALT The Marwari letter ḍa in the Devanagari script, showing alternate positioning for attached marks above.
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WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement Conference: 26th-29th March (hybrid) and 11th April (online).
Join us for 30+ presentations on writing from around the world, historical and modern!
Programme and Zoom registration via the link.
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Just finished reading _Chinese Characters Across Asia_ by @ZevHandel. It’s the clearest introduction I have read about how the Chinese writing system works—dispelling common, long-held misunderstandings—, and how the script was adapted to Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Zhuang.
New promo specimen images of Cambria and Cambria Math created by @Paul_Hanslow. See these and others at
tiro.com/fonts/cambria
The Cambria text fonts now support four scripts: the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic of the original release, and a new Armenian design by Ruben Tarumian.
Licenses now available for webfont use and app embedding:
tiro.com/fonts/cambria#purch…
New Laconia Cherokee specimen images, by @Paul_Hanslow. See these and more at
tiro.com/fonts/laconia-chero…
ALT Title specimen image for the Laconia Cherokee typeface family, showing the typeface name in front of an image of a herbal plant, beside a list of Cherokee words in each of the seven font weights.
In support of Indigenous language use, Laconia Cherokee is available for license under our pay-what-you-want model. You decide the price.
tiro.com/fonts/laconia-chero…
ALT Colourful specimen image showing words and phrases in various weights of the Laconia Cherokee typeface.
Laconia Cherokee is a companion to the Laconia typeface family, designed by Ross Mills, with assistance from Anna Štepanovská and Paul Hanslow. Laconia supports a wider range of Latin script languages.
tiro.com/fonts/laconia
ALT Colourful specimen of the Laconia typeface family, showing words and phrases set in the various font weights.
ALT Specimen of the Laconia typeface, showing text setting of geology article about plate tectonics, and a smart phone screen with a geologically themed music playlist.
When I visit this site now, I see almost nothing posted by people whom I follow, just a stream of content I didn’t ask for about things I don’t care about, and lots of ads. So don’t expect much from this account any more except occasional shouting-into-the-void announcements.
I’ll probably create a bsky account for announcements of new fonts, etc., but for discussion of type design, typography, font tooling, etc. you can find me—and 700+ other active colleagues—at typo.social.
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So sad to hear of the death of Prof Michael Twyman, who nurtured many budding printing historians (including me) and whose support of and contribution to typographic history is celebrated in the most recent issue of the 'PHS Journal', demonstrating the breadth of his knowledge.
New FontLab .vfj tools:
vfj-skew
Applies slant (and optional x,y offsets) to anchors in a .vfj source.
vfj-copy-anchors-from-vtp
Copies anchors from an .vtp file (or .ttf containing a TSIV table) to a target .vfj file.
github.com/TiroTypeworks/Tir…
The Univerisity of Reading quietly published a playlist of James Mosley’s lectures on the history of (Latin) letterforms to YouTube.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Select fonts that we’ve made over the years for Microsoft are now available for commercial licensing from our website (including webfont use licenses). The first tranche of these fonts is now live, with more to follow later this year.
#announcement
tiro.com/articles/microsoft-…
New releases include Skeena and Skeena Display, designed by John Hudson and @Paul_Hanslow for Microsoft Office, and now extended to pan-European Latin character coverage.
tiro.com/fonts/skeena
tiro.com/fonts/skeena-displa…
Check out these and other Tiro Typeworks fonts on our website, and be sure to look for the specimen PDF link at the bottom of each font page for more samples.
[Below: Gabriola, by John Hudson.]
tiro.com/fonts
