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This has been our most complex and ambitious project so far — a collection of fonts for South Asia, covering 14 writing scripts: Bangla-Assamese, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Meetei Mayek,...
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Designing Fonts for Two Billion people — read about the process of designing Bangla, Devanagari , Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Meetei Mayek, Odia, Ol Chiki, Sinhala, Tamil and Telugu fonts....
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We put online an article I wrote for Eye magazine, about the nature of originality in type design. Is it possible to create unique and original...
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Swiss type designer Max Miedinger is primarily recognised as the designer of Helvetica. Nikola Djurek, fascinated by Miedinger’s lesser-known typefaces, created the Münchenstein font family, bringing...
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24 year ago, we registered this domain and started building Typotheque. Never would have imagined where this journey would take us, thanks to the people we met on the way. Thank you.
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Yesterday we announced Typotheque Club. We are starting this online place to create a sustainable way to fund future research work on indigenous writing scripts, and to also organise online...
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See our latest newsletter introducing Typotheque Club, and all its benefits. Joining is free.https://admin.typotheque.com/site/previewnewsletter/139
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After carrying out research for over a year into educational handwriting models, we have developed a typeface that not only uses the collective characteristics of handwriting as it is taught in...
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Last year, we made a call for entries for our handwriting database. Today, we publish a collection of over 550 samples of handwriting from 46 countries. This database fuelled the design of our latest...
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Next week, November 16 at 7pm CET, we will present the research behind the new typeface Dash, in an online presentation by lettering artist Petra Dočekalová, type historian Sébastien Morlighem, and...
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To make this personalised writing even more specific, we have studied how forms of letters change based on local preferences. For example, a Spanish writer crosses the minuscule q, while an Italian...
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This Thursday 7pm CET, join the online presentation about handwriting research with the type historian Sébastien Morlighem, cognitive psychologist Héctor Mangas and type designer Petra Dočekalová, by...
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Do we prefer our own handwriting? We conducted a large scale empirical study on how familiarity affects the perception of handwritten text, measuring implicit biases that show people favour text...
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Last night was our first Typotheque Club live presentation, on the applied research produced to design Dash typeface. If you missed it, you can watch the recording in the Club page. Next presentation...
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We are working with Chris Skillern @tulseytype on a series of innovative Cherokee fonts. You can support the project directly in this crowdfunding campaign. One more week to go. Join the club, and...
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WE MADE IT! Thanks to the generosity of 48 fantastic community members, with hours still to spare, we successfully funded our first crowdfunding attempt to support indigenous writing scripts....
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Next Tuesday, December 12, at 8pm, as part of Typotheque Club Kevin King will discuss his research into the indigenous languages of North America. Join for free. https://www.typotheque.com/club
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RIP Jan Middendorp 🕯️Jan was a theatre critic, writer, translator, designer, and curator. He is the author of Dutch Type (2004), Shaping Text (2012), Type Navigator (2011). A colleague and a friend. He...
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In about an hour, we will hold our second Typotheque Club online presentation. Kevin King will present this book and the on-going research into indigenous languages of North America. 8pm CET, link when...
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A new book presenting the typography of the Indigenous languages of North America, and their local typographic preferences, as documented by Typotheque’s research and ongoing collaboration with local...
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