Articles & Projects
Sylfaen
Foundations of Multiscript
Typography
In 1997 Tiro was hired by Microsoft Typography to consult on the production of support materials for OpenType font development.
Part of this project was producing a multi-script font used for displaying
glyphs in th WRIT database, which was a tool for establishing character and
glyph requirements for given
languages, geographical areas or scripts (or combinations thereof). This paper discusses the project and some of the decisions and challanges that
font designers face when working in multiple scripts.
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Articles & Projects
James Evans, a short biography
History of Canadian Syllabics series I
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.
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2004–2006: Development/extension of Cambria typeface (one of the members
of the ClearType font collection) for mathematical and scientific typesetting.
This included the addition of several thousand glyphs, hinting, custom table
production etc. for use with a new mathematical typesetting system developed
by Microsoft. Editing, writing, production and design of ‘Mathematical
Typesetting’, a booklet about the some of the history of mathematical typesetting,
it’s difficulties and the new math layout technology and the Cambria Math
font.
More about this project by one of the developers
View a basic specimen of Cambria Math [559K]
2004–present: SBL Hebrew font and SBL Literature fonts.
SBL Hebrew
aims to outperform all previous hebrew text rendering, and which will enable
biblical scholars to create, edit and exchange documents between the increasing
number of systems and applications that support Unicode text encoding and
OpenType Layout.
Go
to SBL font site (External)
2003–2004: Cleartype font project. Design of Constantia typeface (Hudson);
hinting of two typeface families; various overall management tasks; editing and
production of ‘Now read this’ booklet documenting project.
Projects
} Tiro Glyph Library
Tiro Glyph Library:
E.J. Peck Archive
Images from the Peck Archives are housed at the General Synod Archives of the Anglican Church of Canada. Most are related to Edmund Peck's work on Inukitut grammars and his introduction of the Evans syllabic writing system to the Inuit. There are also a few images of Cree works produced at or for the Moosonee Mission Press which were also in the Peck collection.
Articles & Projects
Edmund
Peck
History of Canadian Syllabics
series II
An Anglican missionary in the north develops Inuktitut
grammars and introduces the Evans syllabic script to the Inuit of Baffin
Island.
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