Just finished reading _Chinese Characters Across Asia_ by @zevhandel.bsky.social l. It’s the clearest introduction I have read about how the Chinese writing system works—dispelling common, long-held misunderstandings—, and how the script was adapted to Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Zhuang.

The Cambria text fonts now support four scripts: the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic of the original release, and a new Armenian design by Ruben Tarumian.

Licenses now available for webfont use and app embedding:
www.tiro.com/fonts/cambri...

New promo specimen images of Cambria and Cambria Math created by Paul Hanslow. See these and others at
www.tiro.com/fonts/cambria

Laconia Cherokee is a companion to the Laconia typeface family, designed by Ross Mills, with assistance from Anna Štepanovská and Paul Hanslow. Laconia supports a wider range of Latin script languages.
www.tiro.com/fonts/laconia

In support of Indigenous language use, Laconia Cherokee is available for license under our pay-what-you-want model. You decide the price.
www.tiro.com/fonts/laconi...

New Laconia Cherokee specimen images, by Paul Hanslow. See these and more at
www.tiro.com/fonts/laconi...

My friend Kelli Anderson’s truly excellent paper-engineering book on the Latin alphabet, Alphabet in Motion, in review on Adam Savage’s Tested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCc...

You can buy Kelli’s book at: www.kellianderson.com/books/alphab...

Matthew Butterick (lawyer, type designer, and author of Typography for Lawyers) has opened a law firm focused on AI litigation: buttericklaw.com

When admiring the letterforms of a neon sign, it is easy to overlook the practical logistics of its construction … but look at how much effort goes into the illusion of a continuous line of cursive text.

It’s important for Americans to talk and repost about things that are happening in their country, and I don’t begrudge them doing so on social media, but I really wish platforms like this encouraged use of hashtags to help the rest of the world filter this stuff.

😍 Spotted at a recent conference: an author of ours with a Brill #tattoo! Written in the Brill font, amazingly enough, the #Greek term "Hapax legomenon" describes a word that occurs only once in a body of text. Pretty unique, and we love it!

Send us your #academic tattoos if you have them!

I did a quick check, and the Brill Latin subset font seems to support all the Pinyin tone markings, with the caveat that ế and ề end up with Vietnamese mark positioning due to Unicode normalisation.

Web font licenses for the Brill types are now available directly from our website. The available products include script-specific subsets targeting modern language use, which are a more economical option if you don’t need all the phonetic notation, historical characters...
www.tiro.com/fonts/brill