Since 1994, Tiro Typeworks has established a reputation
for both design and technical quality in digital font production. From beginnings
as an independent retail type foundry, the company, which still consists
of founders John Hudson and Ross Mills, has developed into a highly regarded
developer of custom typefaces and font solutions for major software developers,
academic organisations and publishers, and government. Since 1997, Tiro Typeworks
has specialised in fonts for multilingual computing and publishing, making
fonts for a variety of scripts and writing systems. This work includes extensions
to existing Latin typefaces (for instance, new Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew
companions for Helvetica Linotype), original single and multi-script typefaces
designed by Hudson and Mills, and collaborations with Tiro’s associate designers.
To date, Tiro Typeworks has produced new typefaces for
the Arabic, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, Burmese, Cherokee, Cyrillic,
Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin (including extended and IPA), Ogham, and
Thai scripts, as well as technical and symbol fonts for CAD software, stock
ticker software, and production for a new font for mathematical
and scientific typesetting. Tiro’s client list includes Adobe Systems,
Apple Computer, Linotype Library, Microsoft Corporation, the Government
of Nunavut, the Society of Biblical Literature, and numerous smaller software
companies, publishers and design agencies. Several of these typeface designs
have been recognised in international competitions, as has co-founder John
Hudson’s ‘outstanding contribution to the development of Cyrillic
typography and international typographic communications’ (Golden Buki prize,
Kyrillitsa ’99) and Ross Mills’ Pigiarniq (Euphemia) was one of the winners
of the bukva:raz! award in 2001.
Restraint is an ornament font which happens to contain
letterforms. It is 100% fanciful all the time, and not for those timid of heart. It contains numerous squiggles and curly bits for creating
blocks of exuberance, borders, frames, and graphic flights of fancy. Instructions for use included.
Various resources and links to articles related
to North American syllabic writing systems, including the Canadian Syllabic
script as well as the Cherokee script. Various fonts for these scripts
are or will shortly be available, including Euphemia, Plantagenet Cherokee
and Wawatay.
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James
Evans, a short biography History of Canadian Syllabics series
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In the wilderness of Rupert’s Land, a Wesleyan missionary, James Evans, develops
a new writing system for the Cree language. Deprived of the materials necessary
for printing,
he manufactures his own; casting type and printing using the limited resources
available to him.
Resources Developer & User
Resources A series of resources
for font developers and end-users including encodings, character set management
and Python scripts for use in conjunction with Fontlab, as well as utilities
and keyboard drivers.
This site serves as an outlet for future retail font licensing,
as well as showcasing our extensive custom font work and research projects and
providing a range of resources to both users and makers of type. We’ll be adding
new material to the site over time, including details of select projects from
the past ten years, more articles, and some fonts with free end-user licenses.
Visitors familiar with our old website, and the small collection of Postscript
Type 1 fonts available for retail licensing that it catalogued, will note their
absence. These early fonts have been withdrawn from circulation as they no longer
reflect either our interests as designers or our goal as manufacturers to supply
typographers and readers with robust, individual and flexible (and sometimes
novel) type solutions. No further fonts will be issued by Tiro Typeworks in the
legacy Type 1 format. New fonts will be available in the OpenType format, and
some of the older retail fonts may eventually be re-released in thoroughly revised
form, but this work is not a current priority.
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