Kevin King

Join us on Thursday for a free 50-minute online talk exploring the design and development of Terrassa, a typeface inspired by architectural lettering.

📅 19 June, 2025, 8pm Amsterdam time.
Exclusively for Typotheque Club members*

Become a member for free here.
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Typotheque: Typotheque specimen No. 24 This printed type specimen presents the background and design thinking behind the Terrassa typeface.

This printed type specimen, designed by Manera Estudi, presents the background and design thinking behind the Terrassa typeface. It features an in-depth essay by Manuel Sesma, as well as a prologue text by Nikola Djurek. www.typotheque.com/books/terras...

Terrassa Display and Gradient both contain five variable axes. We considered providing traditional static fonts, but that would produce over 10,000 variations, which would overwhelm your font menu. Instead, we deliver Terrassa Display and Gradient as variable fonts. typotheque.com/fonts/terrassa

An image promoting Typotheque's collection of new, original CJK fonts

After five years of development, we are pleased to present our East Asian type collection for Chinese, Japanese and Korean text. www.typotheque.com/blog/collect...

I'm looking so forward to speaking about a design process that we follow at @typotheque.com for supporting Indigenous languages in North America through type design for @wordsoftype.com ! Get your tickets if you haven't yet!

Typotheque: Typotheque Club Typotheque type foundry, get unique, high quality fonts for print and screens directly from the designers. We also create custom (bespoke) fonts for most world's languages.

Join us tonight at 8pm (Amsterdam time) for our new Typotheque Club talk on research into Thai script. We will also discuss a new collection of Thai fonts and upcoming Thai/Latin fonts. The webinar is free, you will get the online link after registering at Typotheque Club. www.typotheque.com/club

🚨 NEXT WEEK 🚨
Kevin King @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social lecture about
Indigenous Language Support: A Design Process

MARCH 21, 2025
2:30 to 4pm CET (Paris time)
Online, in English
20€

More info and tickets at wordsoftype.com

#lecture #indigenous #typography #indigenousscript #northamerica

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 @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social

Tickets & Info at wordsoftype.com

Hello! Our first post on here is an account on why we decided to stop publishing and promoting typefaces for a while.

tptq-arabic.com/blog/after_t...

Say hello to La Grotesque, a typeface with a vibrant Mediterranean flavour celebrating the interconnectedness of the French, Tunisian and Italian triangle's cultural heritage.

La Grotesque is designed by Naïma Ben Ayed (Arabic) & Francesca Bolognini (Latin)

tptq-arabic.com/blog/la_grot...

🚀 New release:
While images provide a universal visual language, the perception of icon style is highly personal and needs to be tailored to specific contexts. Zed Icons offers a unique level of adaptability with three adjustable variable axes. www.typotheque.com/blog/zed-ico...

Words of Type Words of Type Events offer a series of lectures and workshops with various topics about typography and typeface design, in English and other languages, hosted on the WoT community.

Reminders for WoT Events!!
- Greek typography, w/ Irene Vlachou
- Indigenous language support, w/ @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social
- Font production & engineering, w/ Rosalie Wagner
- Arabic typography, w/ Azza Alameddine

Tickets & more info here: bit.ly/44AaU5r

My colleague the wonderful Héctor Mangas Afonso will be speaking tomorrow about Type Design for low vision readers at the AIGA Los Angeles. All ticket proceeds will go to the LA Fire efforts.

Bridget Chase with a multilingual side in indigenous languages.

Bridget Chase with slide on indigenous typewriter

Bridget Chase kicking off #FaceInterface with Indigenous North American Typography. Researching and documenting the encoding, keyboard, and typographic preferences of each community for their language & resolving issues. Communities now reclaiming ownership/decision-making of orthographies.

Example typefaces slide

Diacritic stacking/shaping issues.

Bridget Chase: updated 5 existing typefaces to not only incorporate the new characters, but take into consideration the typographic preferences that communities have for their languages. Diacritic positioning is important and can be challenging. #FaceInterface

Bridget Chase: feedback from an elder on a prototype keyboard that "there is no f in my language, but there is in Facebook". Switching keyboards back and forth was a huge hassle. But other people also had strong feelings about not having any characters outside their orthography. #FaceInterface

Bridget Chase: 50% of all profits from Typotheque go to working on indigenous languages. All work done for free for those communities, but need support in external funding to scale the work out. #FaceInterface

So grateful that the wonderful @bchasemadethis.bsky.social was at Face/Interface to kick off the conference with a talk about the work we are doing together with our teammates on our @typotheque.com Indigenous North American Type project!

Day 1 of Face/Interface2025 kicked off with a GREAT talk by @typotheque.com Bridget Chase: Typotheque Indigenous North American Type Research.

Like you needed more reasons to buy their fonts. 👏👏👏

In December, we co-published a video together with Heiltsuk Revitalization to describe the work that we did together to add two new capital letters to the Unicode Standard for their language. To describe this effort in more detail, please read our blog post: www.typotheque.com/blog/new-uni...

So excited that the wonderful @bchasemadethis.bsky.social will be at Face/Interface today to present on our ongoing work together on our Indigenous North American Type project @typotheque.com. If you can't attend in person, you can join the free live stream – don't miss Bridget's talk at 9am PST!

New lecture: Indigenous Language Support, a Design Process. With @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social from @typotheque.com

More info and tickets here: www.wordsoftype.com

Great tip from @mati.woke.cat: Settings > Appearance > Font and choosing "System" makes diacritics render properly on both Windows & Mac OS. Funny that @bsky.app says 'For the best experience, we recommend using the theme font' —the best experience for who? Not Indigenous language speakers! #langsky

You can hear audio files for pronunciation of the Haíɫzaqvḷa orthography here: www.firstvoices.com/hailzaqvla/a...

Yes, exactly! The Windows font handles it well.

Depending on your language?

Yes, to second @bchasemadethis.bsky.social, great tip @mati.woke.cat! The Windows core font supports the mark-to-mark attachment shaping required. Unfortunately, macOS's SF Pro does not, *and* the U+0313 COMBINING COMMA ABOVE form in our co-author's name is ambiguous in relation to the acute accent

I'm so excited to share this wonderful article that @markturin.bsky.social, N̓a̓ṇ̓gáinúx̌v, @bchasemadethis.bsky.social and I co-authored together for @theconversationca.bsky.social, speaking about our work together to solve digital language support issues for Haíɫzaqvḷa (Heiltsuk language).

Speaking of #language justice, #fonts & #encoding: @bsky.app/@support.bsky.team, your font isn't inclusive! The diacritics in my co-author's name are broken. As we say in the article "The unique characters integral to many Indigenous languages are often mangled as they travel across the ether."