Tiro Fonts
Since 1994 Tiro Typeworks has been crafting typefaces both for retail sale as well as for clients with specific requirements. Our first set of typefaces have effectively retired after some 10 years on the market. We have done this because we felt that these typefaces no longer accurately reflected either our tastes as designers nor our goals as manufacturers, which is to supply typographers and readers with robust, individual, and flexible type solutions.
* A note for those looking for our earlier fonts, 1530 Garamond, Academia, Aeneas & Manticore–these early fonts have been withdrawn from circulation and are no longer available to end users. Some of the older retail fonts may eventually be re-released in thoroughly revised
form, but this work is not a current priority.
Fonts } Syllabic
Resources
Euphemia & Uqammaq
Two Font Families for Inuktitut & Cree
Both typefaces have support for the latin script as well
as Canadian Syllabics. Euphemia covers most languages which use the Canadian
Syllabic script including various Cree orthographies, Inuktitut and the historical
Carrier script. Both font families are available with free licenses to end
users.
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Fonts } Restraint Now Available!
Restraint
Designed by Marian Bantjes & Ross Mills
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.
Fonts } Retail fonts in Development
Plantagenet Novus
Designed by Ross Mills 2004
Plantagenet Novus is a completely revised OpenType edition of Ross Mills’ 1996 typeface Plantagenet. The original face is undergoing a seemingly perpetual expansion of an extensive typographic repertoire and multilingual character sets to enable the refined setting of scholarly materials in a wide range of languages including support for Native American languages.
The typeface is not yet available for purchase to end-users,
but specimens and information are available during its extended development. Custom builds and licensing may be available to interested parties.
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Fonts } Custom Fonts
Custom Fonts
Tiro Typeworks specializes in the production of custom typefaces for a wide range of applications and clients. Our focus is on producing high-quality tools for our clients; we can undertake all aspects of the font production process including design, character set development, managing outside consultants and associates, TrueType and Type1 hinting and all other production tasks.
Fonts } fonts on the drawing board
Huronia & Maxwell
Designed by Ross Mills 2005–?
(*Working titles)
*Huronia is a book face; an exploration of tension in letterforms,
whose combined colour on the page will provide some dynamism and distinct
but quiet resonance to text. Huronia will be supplied with a pan-American (+ Americanist) character set including Canadian and Cherokee syllabics.
Huronia
Beta specimen
*Maxwell is a text face designed for the typesetting of
mathematical and scientific texts and editorial use. A fresh interpretation
of the Modern series of typefaces developed in Victorian England and used
with great success for bookwork and especially for the setting of mathematics.
Maxwell looks to these models, while re-sculpturing them into elegant and
nuanced forms. Fonts will initially be released for the new Microsoft Math
typesetting layout technology and adaptations may be commissioned for other
proprietary mathematical layout systems.
Maxwell
Alpha specimen