The inscription could even be much later. The statue is of a kind that would have originally been mounted on a plinth that likely had a longer inscription. The inscription on the base could have been added when the statue was moved into the museum.
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...
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...
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...
Adam Yeo's seminar is now online if you missed it and would like to catch up.
youtu.be/NSMC-JFrcy8?...
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?...
Front cover of Zev Handel’s book _Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese_.
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.
Cambria typeface specimen, showing text settings in English, Armenian, Russian, and Greek languages. The text in each example is related to mathematical theorems.
The Cambria text fonts now support four scripts: the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic of the original release, and a new Armenian design by Ruben Tarumian.
Licenses now available for webfont use and app embedding:
www.tiro.com/fonts/cambri...
Specimen image for the Cambria typeface family, illustrated by a portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, with apple, and symbol characters from the Cambria Math font, and the beginning of a quote from Newton: ‘Truth is ever to be found in simplicity...’
![Specimen image for the Cambria typeface family, illustrated by Newtonian equaations set in the Cambria Math font, and the conclusion of a quote from Newton: ‘...not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.’ [I don’t endorse that view: there is plenty of truth in the multiplicity and confusion of things.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:onoacmxpmqdhzlp57btknxpf/bafkreiarakwjzweqmqobsqsped7hums5ti2mxj3milj43xvo7j6ffohr5y)
Specimen image for the Cambria typeface family, illustrated by Newtonian equaations set in the Cambria Math font, and the conclusion of a quote from Newton: ‘...not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.’ [I don’t endorse that view: there is plenty of truth in the multiplicity and confusion of things.]
New promo specimen images of Cambria and Cambria Math created by Paul Hanslow. See these and others at
www.tiro.com/fonts/cambria
Colourful specimen of the Laconia typeface family, showing words and phrases set in the various font weights.
Specimen of the Laconia typeface, showing text setting of geology article about plate tectonics, and a smart phone screen with a geologically themed music playlist.
Laconia Cherokee is a companion to the Laconia typeface family, designed by Ross Mills, with assistance from Anna Štepanovská and Paul Hanslow. Laconia supports a wider range of Latin script languages.
www.tiro.com/fonts/laconia
Colourful specimen image showing words and phrases in various weights of the Laconia Cherokee typeface.
In support of Indigenous language use, Laconia Cherokee is available for license under our pay-what-you-want model. You decide the price.
www.tiro.com/fonts/laconi...
Title specimen image for the Laconia Cherokee typeface family, showing the typeface name in front of an image of a herbal plant, beside a list of Cherokee words in each of the seven font weights.
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...
Matthew Butterick (lawyer, type designer, and author of Typography for Lawyers) has opened a law firm focused on AI litigation: buttericklaw.com
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.
Photo of a tattoo saying "Hapax legomenon".
😍 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!
I did a quick check, and the Brill Latin subset font seems to support all the Pinyin tone markings, with the caveat that ế and ề end up with Vietnamese mark positioning due to Unicode normalisation.
Web font licenses for the Brill types are now available directly from our website. The available products include script-specific subsets targeting modern language use, which are a more economical option if you don’t need all the phonetic notation, historical characters...
www.tiro.com/fonts/brill