Typotheque typography project aims to protect Indigenous languages from “digital extinction” – Dezeen

Type foundry Typotheque has created a series of new typefaces and proposed changes to the way that digital characters are encoded to make it easier for Canadian Indigenous communities to write digitally in their own languages.

The North American Syllabics project saw the Dutch studio work in close collaboration with groups that use Canadian Aboriginal syllabics – a family of writing systems, also known simply as syllabics, that were developed in the 1800s for the region’s Indigenous groups.

This has resulted in three new syllabics typefaces, alongside crucial interventions into how the Unicode Consortium encodes the languages for digital use via the Unicode Standard character coding system.

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