Tiro Typeworks

@TiroTypeworks@typo.social
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Official account of Tiro Typeworks Ltd., a digital type foundry founded in 1994 by John Hudson and Ross Mills, specialising in custom fonts for multilingual publishing and computing.

#Typography #TypeDesign #Fonts #Unicode #WritingSystems #Linguistics #Palaeography #Calligraphy

#fedi22

Websitehttps://tiro.com/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/TiroTypeworks
Personal@tiro_j
GitHubhttps://github.com/TiroTypeworks
Tiro Typeworks2d ago
Handpainted license plate on a Bugatti Type 75 Atalante. I wish this were permitted for modern vehicles, especially here in North America where literally everything is wrong with standardised license plates, both functionally and aesthetically.
Tiro TypeworksJul 4
This would be my favourite lettering medium, except someone keeps stealing my stylus and chewing on it.
Tiro TypeworksJun 26
I recently came across this great photograph of my father teaching at Leeds College of Art in the late 1950s. Coincidentally, I was dressed very similarly.
Tiro TypeworksJun 2

In my @atypi presentation about the Skeena Indigenous project, I spoke about how we shouldn’t presume non-literate societies lacked ways to record and transmit information.

Today, I came across this Diné (Navajo) cantillation aide-mémoire, painted on muslin cloth for easy transport. The prayer sticks illustrated along the bottom indicate the sequence of chants and their repetition.

c. 1900–1920

Tiro TypeworksJun 2

Following a link from @moyogo led me to this proposal from 1911 to replace all the writing systems of India with a new ‘Imperial Script’. The accompanying article now seems almost quaint in its assertions and rhetorical devices.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.104633/page/n271/mode/2up

Tiro TypeworksMay 29
Today’s bane of my existence.
Tiro TypeworksMay 1
Cornerstone, Saint Culumba (Church of Scotland), Pont Street, London.
Tiro TypeworksApr 29
There is a kind of greatness in British tabloid headline writing.
Tiro TypeworksApr 17

Hey @stewf, it’s Окленд.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/oz0rsl/soviet_map_of_%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%84%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE/

Tiro TypeworksApr 15
Apparently I am going to be speaking backwards at @atypi from 16:30 to 16:00 on the Saturday. That feels about right at this point, as I am still waiting confirmation that I can use some of the indigenous language samples in my slides, and maybe the permission will arrive by the time I reach the beginning of the talk at the end of the session.🤪
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Tiro TypeworksJun 2

Following a link from @moyogo led me to this proposal from 1911 to replace all the writing systems of India with a new ‘Imperial Script’. The accompanying article now seems almost quaint in its assertions and rhetorical devices.

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.104633/page/n271/mode/2up