Had a little time over the last few days to make progress with this pair of typefaces. Couldn't find a Lao version of the Stranger Things logo so here's my guess how it could look, along with Thai, and the geo-grotesque interpreting how a contemporary loopless design might have looked in the 1980s.

This book, The Garden of Delights, is a real treasure! Such a joy to read! Deeply imaginative, deliciously written, multi-layered story with magic, gods and flowers. Stunning! Thank you @amalsingh.bsky.social

Proofing Thai Mon letterforms for Pali language, which use different constructions for a few letters, and add loops to others.

See how Thai characters ๚ and ะ are used as separators, along with ᪥.

There's also a contextual version of the round -aa vowel to avoid ambiguity after certain letters.

Anyone here know the Myanmar-script orthography for Asho language? I understand we can find initial clusters ကွၠ ခွၠ ဂွၠ but I'm not sure how they should look. Top or bottom version?

My top 12 books of 2024! Moved a bit away from SF&F this year to mostly historical fiction, learning about times and places through the eyes of protagonists with stories to tell. This year it's been Syria, St Kilda, Malaysia, Georgia, Texas, Kerala, Barcelona, Sri Lanka & more, some treasures here:

Nice to see our font NaN Metrify Thai in use for Chiang Mai’s local organisation เชียงใหม่ ฉันจะดูแลเธอ (chiangmaiwecare.com)

Visit NaN’s microsite to play with or license the fonts (which have three versions with different letterforms): www.metrify.world/tweet-decisi...

In the same way the Latin script has loads of extra letters like ⱭƁƐƏꞰŊÞẞƔ for different languages, the Myanmar script has lots of extra letters for some of the 100+ languages of Burma. Even where language groups use the same letters, different communities have their own preferred letterforms.

This is a wonderful example of how modular Burmese script is! Look how every glyph is built from the same three elements: a circle, a line and a dot.

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Currently scraping through 24 Tai Laing / Shan Ni manuscripts from the early 19th to mid-20th centuries to inventorise every grapheme. Engaging with manuscripts this deeply is extremely finickety work, but really cements understanding of letterforms and their different reflexes.

It's very interesting to me that the manuscript tradition among Tai groups managed to evolve a companion style of writing for indicating different kind of text. Here we see letterforms with large dots used for special emphasis in a Tai Laing manuscript from 1821...

The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) has completed the digitisation of almost 1000 Mon manuscripts from monasteries in Thailand. Congratulations to Patrick McCormick and the team!

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One of the loveliest temples in northern Thailand, Wat Analayo near Phayao. Such a peaceful place in harmony with nature, as a Buddhist temple should be :) From my visit 5 years ago:

Join Sirin and me this Saturday on TypeLab's Asia channel for a chat about typo adventures in Southeast Asia, and how they help us really understand scripts, genres and letterforms.

10am BST, 4pm Bangkok. Free registration: 2024.typographics.com/typelab

Tai Khamyang manuscript (on avoiding dangers 𑁍 predictions 𑁍 omens) from Chow Kensan Tunkhang's great-grandfather, and our updated Phake Ramayana font now including some optional Khamyang letterforms slightly different from the Phake style.

Together we can help preserve Khamyang literary culture.

สุขสันต์วันปีใหม่! Happy New Year everybody!

So many strange looking sequences in Kwekor script. Most of these won't occur in native words, but testing and figuring out how to resolve collisions is quite a brain stretcher!