Settler Type Designer & Researcher @typotheque // Fonts // Indigenous Language Support // Calligraphy // Dad // Tkarón:to (Toronto) // (he/him)
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I'm so excited to share the Syllabics project that @typotheque and I have been working on for the past two years, one that provides meaningful results for Indigenous communities in Canada. Please enjoy watching the short film we made to present the project!
In collaboration with the Indigenous communities we have developed a series of Canadian Syllabics fonts, that improve the encoding standards, and make the fonts available to previously ignored people. Launching 8 font families today. tptq.com/syllabics
ALT The Typotheque Canadian Syllabics Project
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible
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I am thrilled to be presenting at the @Stanford Face/Interface 2025: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction conference on behalf of @typotheque 🎉
Happening January 17/18, there is a HUGE list of amazing speakers & tickets are available now!
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Face/Interface @Stanford 2025 is Coming
Registration now open for In-Person & Virtual
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Tell. Everyone. You. Know.
Speakers = Unreal
Cost = $0
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Thank you to all people that supported Typotheque Club crowdfunding of the Cherokee project. Here is the project update. typotheque.com/blog/cherokee…
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A new book in Typotheque online bookstore:
Alfabet by the Dutch performance duo Thomas & Ruhller recreates the European avant-garde book Abeceda (Alphabet) from 1926 by the Czech writer Karel Teige, designer Vítězslav Nezval, and dancer Milča Mayerová.
typotheque.com/books/alfabet
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Very excited to be speaking at the Canada Youth Internet Governance Forum this morning on the topic of 'Language Diversity Online'! #CanadaYouthIGF 💻💬
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Happy 25th birthday @typotheque! It was my pleasure to create this map for the exhibition of all of the scripts that November supports, and will support, in the future.
We created this map of the world’s writing scripts for the anniversary exhibition in Den Haag. (Thanks @calligraphio!). All 36 presented scripts are set in one font — November. Most of the language versions are already published, some will come soon. It has been a massive project
ALT Writing scripts of the world
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We created this map of the world’s writing scripts for the anniversary exhibition in Den Haag. (Thanks @calligraphio!). All 36 presented scripts are set in one font — November. Most of the language versions are already published, some will come soon. It has been a massive project
ALT Writing scripts of the world
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Happy Unicode 16 release day! ⌨️🎉 MAJOR congratulations to @calligraphio & N̓a̓ṇ́ga̓inúx̌v (Robyn) Humchitt for their successful proposal to add 3 Haíɫzaqvḷa language characters to the Unicode Standard. Another important step towards digital equity for Indigenous languages!
✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 16.0 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 154,998! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here → unicode.org/versions/Unicode… #Unicode16
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In addition to new characters, a small number of errata were fixed for #Unicode16, along with improved representative glyphs → unicode.org/versions/Unicode…
The three new Latin script characters that N̓a̓ṇ́ga̓inúx̌v (Robyn) Humchitt and I proposed for the Haíɫzaqvḷa (Heiltsuk) language have now been formally published in Version 16.0 of the Unicode Standard, and are now available for reliable digital text interchange! 🥳🎉🎉
✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 16.0 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 154,998! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here → unicode.org/versions/Unicode… #Unicode16
More information about these three new characters can be read here in the official proposal (L2/23-191): unicode.org/L2/L2023/23191-t…
This is a big win for the Heiltsuk community as it enables full representation and access to their writing system on all digital devices. We look forward to extending the impact of this success through our continued partnership between Heiltsuk Revitalization and @typotheque
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Print magazine on our most recent project. printmag.com/type-tuesday/ze…
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After 10 years of work, the first stations of integrated Paris transport (@GdParisExpress), with our typographic solutions, were inaugurated on the occasion of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. A collaboration with @intregal_design. Photos by @EvaKubinyi, integral designers
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Anyone has contacts with the Taznatit and Tagargrent language speakers of Algeria? We have a simple orthography question, and any help would be much appreciated.
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Zed review in German magazine Page — Diese Schrift kann jeder lesen und schreiben — in German and behind a paywall
page-online.de/typografie/di…
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We are closing our bookshop for the summer break, and if you'd like to order some books from us, and receive them soon, please do it before 8am CEST tomorrow, when we will do the last shipping batch before the break. typotheque.com/books
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Register for TypeCon2024: Portland today and add Chris Skillern talk on “Filling in the Gaps: Speculative Type History for an Underserved” to your Saturday agenda!
#typecon2024 #typecon #speaker #conference @tulseytype
I'm so excited to have you on the team @bchasemadethis and to be working together with you and our wonderful teammates in respectful partnership with Haíɫzaqv Revitalization for this project!
I'm thrilled to share that I've joined a new @typotheque research team. It's a privilege to work in partnership with Haíɫzaqvḷa Revitalization alongside a group of amazing teammates: @calligraphio, @markturin, Leo Vicenti, @hernandezrcris & Julia Schillo. Let me tell you more 🧵
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This is a great model for engagement with digitally disadvantaged language communities.
We are grateful to engage in this work together in respectful collaboration with Heiltsuk Revitalization under a Memorandum of Understanding which can be viewed here: typotheque.com/research/nort…