Kevin King
@kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social
Settler Type Designer & Researcher at Typotheque // Fonts // Indigenous Language Support // Calligraphy // Dad // Tkarón:to-Toaando (Toronto) // (he/him)
https://www.typotheque.com/
https://www.typotheque.com/research/north-american-research
https://www.typotheque.com/
https://www.typotheque.com/research/north-american-research
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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.
www.typotheque.com/club
📅 19 June, 2025, 8pm Amsterdam time.
Exclusively for Typotheque Club members*
Become a member for free here.
www.typotheque.com/club
June 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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.
www.typotheque.com/club
📅 19 June, 2025, 8pm Amsterdam time.
Exclusively for Typotheque Club members*
Become a member for free here.
www.typotheque.com/club
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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...
Typotheque: Typotheque specimen No. 24
This printed type specimen presents the background and design thinking behind the Terrassa typeface.
www.typotheque.com
May 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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...
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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
May 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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
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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...
May 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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!
LAST DAYS to book your ticket to Kevin King’s lecture about Indigenous (North America) languages and the design process of typefaces supporting them!
Tickets at wordsoftype.com
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Tickets at wordsoftype.com
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March 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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!
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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
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.
www.typotheque.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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
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🚨 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
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
March 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🚨 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
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
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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
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
February 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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
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
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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...
tptq-arabic.com/blog/after_t...
January 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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...
tptq-arabic.com/blog/after_t...
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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...
La Grotesque is designed by Naïma Ben Ayed (Arabic) & Francesca Bolognini (Latin)
tptq-arabic.com/blog/la_grot...
February 1, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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...
La Grotesque is designed by Naïma Ben Ayed (Arabic) & Francesca Bolognini (Latin)
tptq-arabic.com/blog/la_grot...
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🚀 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...
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...
February 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🚀 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...
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...
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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
- 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
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.
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January 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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
- 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.
Our in-house cognitive scientist Héctor Mangas Afonso will be speaking tomorrow at the AIGA Los Angeles about the Type Design for Low Vision Readers. You can get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/type-desig...
Type Design for Low Vision Readers with Héctor Alfonso
Type Design for Low Visibility Readers with Héctor Alfonso
www.eventbrite.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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.
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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.
January 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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.
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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
January 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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
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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
January 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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
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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
January 17, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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. 👏👏👏
Like you needed more reasons to buy their fonts. 👏👏👏
January 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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!
Reposted by Kevin King
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. 👏👏👏
Like you needed more reasons to buy their fonts. 👏👏👏
January 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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. 👏👏👏
Like you needed more reasons to buy their fonts. 👏👏👏
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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...
January 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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!
✈️ I am on my way to Stanford to present at Face/Interface 2025. Feeling very privileged to be in the same room as so many amazing folks working in #language #technology! While in-person tickets are sold out, you can still register for free to view the event livestream — link is below! #langsky
Excited to share that Stanford President Jonathan Levin will be attending Face/Interface, and introducing our Keynote Speaker, Dr. Adam Yeo
FULL CALENDAR: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1a24w...
REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterf...
FULL CALENDAR: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1a24w...
REGISTER: www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterf...
January 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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!
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New lecture: Indigenous Language Support, a Design Process. With @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social from @typotheque.com
More info and tickets here: www.wordsoftype.com
More info and tickets here: www.wordsoftype.com
January 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
New lecture: Indigenous Language Support, a Design Process. With @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social from @typotheque.com
More info and tickets here: www.wordsoftype.com
More info and tickets here: www.wordsoftype.com
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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
December 19, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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
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You can hear audio files for pronunciation of the Haíɫzaqvḷa orthography here: www.firstvoices.com/hailzaqvla/a...
FirstVoices.com
Check this out on FirstVoices: Indigenous Language Revitalization Platform
www.firstvoices.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:55 AM
You can hear audio files for pronunciation of the Haíɫzaqvḷa orthography here: www.firstvoices.com/hailzaqvla/a...
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).
Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?
Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?
A recent update to the Unicode Standard means that Haíɫzaqvḷa can finally be fully written and read on all digital platforms.
theconversation.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:39 AM
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).