John Hudson
John Hudson is a type designer and co-founder of Tiro Typeworks. Since 1997, he has specialised in the design and development of custom fonts for multilingual computing and publishing. In addition to his type design activities, John writes and lectures on font technology issues. He was the recipient of the Golden Buki award (1999) for his ‘outstanding contribution to the development of Cyrillic typography and international typographic communication’, and an Emmy Innovator Award (2022) for his ‘significant contributions to OpenType complex script layout and many other parts of the standard’.

Typefaces
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Athena Ruby
Single font typeface for diplomatic transcription of Byzantine seals and coins.
ΕΥ̓ΧΆΪΤΑ ΕΥ̓ΧΆΪΤΑ -
Brill
8 static fonts or 2 variable fonts for scholarly publishing, harmonising text styles and complex typography across many languages and humanities subjects.
Tokaj Tokaj -
Castoro
8 static fonts or 2 variable fonts derived from the Latin subset of Tiro Indic fonts, extended for additional language support.
Kampillanagara Kampillanagara -
Castoro Titling
Single font set of display capitals based on the Castoro text roman, re-cut to the proportions of classical inscriptional letters.
Madranagara Madranagara -
Euphemia
8 static fonts or 2 variable fonts supporting Latin and Canadian Syllabics scripts in a harmonised design.
ᐃᓐᓂᑖ'ᓈᖅ ᐃᓐᓂᑖ'ᓈᖅ -
STIX Two
9 (plus 2 variable) fonts serving the needs of scientific and technical communities, from document creation through final publication.
Irun Irun -
Tiro Bangla
2 fonts in traditional Bangla (Bengali) book style, following manuscript traditions of letterform construction.
ওদালগুৰি ওদালগুৰি -
Tiro Devanagari Hindi
2 fonts in northern Devanagari style with broad proportions and robust strokes suitable for both print and screen reading.
मेदिनीनगर मेदिनीनगर -
Tiro Devanagari Marathi
2 fonts in western Devanagari style with many traditional vertical conjunct forms for Marathi literary texts.
हिंगणघाट हिंगणघाट -
Tiro Devanagari Sanskrit
2 fonts featuring an extensive set of traditional conjunct ligature forms in a western Devanagari style.
राजगृह राजगृह -
Tiro Gurmukhi
2 fonts that reintroduce traditional manuscript stroke modulation to Punjabi typography.
ਹੁਸ਼ਿਆਰਪੁਰ ਹੁਸ਼ਿਆਰਪੁਰ -
Tiro Kannada
2 fonts featuring organic forms inspired by diverse Kannada metal types of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
ಧಾರವಾಡ ಧಾರವಾಡ -
Tiro Malayalam
NewTwo sets of 2 fonts supporting, respectively, traditional and reformed orthographies of Malayalam.
പെരുമ്പാവൂർ പെരുമ്പാവൂർ -
Tiro Sinhala
New2 fonts inspired by 19th Century handwritten forms and metal types.
මඩකලපුව මඩකලපුව -
Tiro Telugu
2 fonts with generously proportioned shapes for good legibility and elegant, traditional forms, able to display complex conjuncts.
సిద్ధిపేట సిద్ధిపేట