Short article, republishing a text I wrote for ISType in 2015, considering how we understand emergent properties, in type as in birds. www.tiro.com/articles/ref...

On the common swift

A short text prepared for the 2015 ISType typography conference, considering how we understand emergent properties, in type as in birds.

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I have written up a Harfbuzz issue regarding support of jihvāmūlīya and upadhmānīya, including recommendations for handling the currently script-ambiguous Vedic Extension characters. github.com/harfbuzz/har...

Support ligation of jihvāmūlīya and upadhmānīya · Issue #5942 · harfbuzz/harfbuzz

Background jihvāmūlīya (velar visarga) and upadhmānīya (labial visarga) are allophones of visarga (voiceless glottal fricative),in Sanskrit that occur, respectively, before ka/kha and pa/pha. In so...

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Our conference WAVE 2: Writing As Visual Engagement is nearly here (26th-29th March and 11th April). You can watch online! Updated programme, abstracts booklet and zoom registration link all here: viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-v...

Writing As Visual Engagement

WAVE 2 Faculty of Classics, 26th-29th March 2026 + Online, 11th April 2026 Where our first conference, Writing As Visual Experience, was themed around the visual experiences of writing, our second …

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4 student tickets left for our Berlin conference — half the price, covered by your future colleagues. 🤝 Drop us a message if you want one. #fontstandcon2026

New update to the Tiro Builder tool, fixing an issue with hinting in CFF fonts instantiated from CFF2 variable build streams. Just finished testing it on a collection of complex Indic fonts build on-the-fly from multiple sources, which still feels magic. github.com/TiroTypework...

TiroTools/Builder at master · TiroTypeworks/TiroTools

Assorted open source font production tools. Contribute to TiroTypeworks/TiroTools development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Adam Yeo's seminar is now online if you missed it and would like to catch up. youtu.be/NSMC-JFrcy8?...

Adam Yeo - Writing as Image: A Comparative Visual Study of Bété and Chinese Scripts

YouTube video by Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems

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As today is #InternationalGreekLanguageDay, allow us a nod to one of Brill’s most appreciated resources and a trusted companion for students and scholars of Ancient Greek: brill.com/edcollbook/t... The print edition is currently available with 35% off using the code DGBCONF1

The video from this seminar is now online here: youtu.be/vJfhL_5-w-U?...

Christopher Miller - The varied roots of quirky sign ordering in Indic orthographies

YouTube video by Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems

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VIEWS project@viewsproject.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Tomorrow, Friday 30th January, Chris Miller is giving an online seminar for VIEWS and the Endangered Writing Network: "The varied roots of quirky sign ordering in Indic orthographies" - especially in Sumatra, South Sulawesi and the Philippines. Register here: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Just finished reading _Chinese Characters Across Asia_ by @zevhandel.bsky.social l. It’s the clearest introduction I have read about how the Chinese writing system works—dispelling common, long-held misunderstandings—, and how the script was adapted to Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, and Zhuang.

New promo specimen images of Cambria and Cambria Math created by Paul Hanslow. See these and others at www.tiro.com/fonts/cambria

New Laconia Cherokee specimen images, by Paul Hanslow. See these and more at www.tiro.com/fonts/laconi...

My friend Kelli Anderson’s truly excellent paper-engineering book on the Latin alphabet, Alphabet in Motion, in review on Adam Savage’s Tested: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCc... You can buy Kelli’s book at: www.kellianderson.com/books/alphab...

Adam Savage Stunned By This Pop-Up Book's Engineering!

YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested

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Matthew Butterick (lawyer, type designer, and author of Typography for Lawyers) has opened a law firm focused on AI litigation: buttericklaw.com

Butterick Law PC / pioneering AI litigation

Butterick Law PC / pioneering AI litigation

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When admiring the letterforms of a neon sign, it is easy to overlook the practical logistics of its construction … but look at how much effort goes into the illusion of a continuous line of cursive text.

It’s important for Americans to talk and repost about things that are happening in their country, and I don’t begrudge them doing so on social media, but I really wish platforms like this encouraged use of hashtags to help the rest of the world filter this stuff.

😍 Spotted at a recent conference: an author of ours with a Brill #tattoo! Written in the Brill font, amazingly enough, the #Greek term "Hapax legomenon" describes a word that occurs only once in a body of text. Pretty unique, and we love it! Send us your #academic tattoos if you have them!