LAST DAYS to book your ticket to Kevin King @calligraphio lecture about Indigenous (North America) languages and the design process of typefaces supporting them!
Tickets at https://wordsoftype.com/
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Kevin King @calligraphio lecture about
Indigenous Language Support: A Design Process
The Indigenous languages in North America feature not only a richness in linguistic diversity, but also a wealth of orthographic diversity, unique writing scripts, and typographic conventions not found anywhere else in the world.
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MARCH 21, 2025
2:30 to 4pm CET (Paris time)
Online, in English
20€
More info and tickets at https://wordsoftype.com/
PUBLIC BETA
Skeena Indigenous is a family of indigenous-first fonts for North American languages using Latin-based orthographies, published by Microsoft under the Open Font License v1.1.
Read about the background of the project:
https://www.tiro.com/articles/skeena-indigenous
The latest build of the Skeena Indigenous fonts are available from the GitHub repo:
https://github.com/microsoft/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/releases/latest
Along with the fonts, source, and build tools, the repo provides extensive documentation about the decision making in the type design and font making, including discussion of unique features of indigenous language texts and how these are addressed.
https://microsoft.github.io/Skeena-Indigenous-Typeface/
Skeena Indigenous was designed with
Paul_Hanslow, based on our earlier work from 2018 and later Calibri-replacement candidate. The design was thoroughly reviewed and revised to give priority to the needs of indigenous languages.
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 @calligraphio
Tickets & Info at
https://wordsoftype.com/
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Stanford University, Adobe (@adobe), @letterformarchive and Words of Type have joined forces to offer a 5-10 week course to 18 students.
With support from @peter (Font Proofer) and @glyphsapp
Program consultants and advisers: Thomas Huot-Marchand (@anrt_type), @gerryleonidas (University of Reading), @granshanconf , @alphabettes
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We're also hosting some events of the FontStand conference, right here in The Hague! March 14–15, 2025. The studio is open and we will be around.
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