Published typeface designs
All of my published designs have been created to enable computing for under-supported language and script communities. They have been published by SIL International, and developed with the help of my talented colleagues on the SIL Writing Systems Technology team. All are freely available under the SIL Open Font License. Here are a few examples of my projects.
Gentium
Gentium is a set of fonts that support virtually all the languages of the world that use the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts. Gentium Basic includes eight weights and is also available via the Google Fonts service. Gentium Plus contains the full extended character set. Winner of both the bukva:raz! and TDC2 2003 type design awards.
Andika
Andika is a low-contrast, sans-serif font designed specifically for literacy and based on legibility principles. It shares the same Latin and Cyrillic script coverage as Gentium. It was designed with colleague Annie Olsen. I prototyped the lowercase and she prototyped the uppercase, then we improved each other’s work.
Tai Heritage Pro
These fonts for the beautiful calligraphic Tai Viet script of Southeast Asia were inspired by the work of a Tai Dam calligrapher, Faah Baccam. Some of the diacritics have over thirty forms or positions. One of my first projects with SIL and one very dear to my heart.
Namdhinggo SIL
This font for the Limbu script of Nepal was based on my own experiments with a reed pen as I learned how to write the script. It is widely used and has been the inspiration for more recent font designs that support the script.
Abyssinica SIL
Abyssinica SIL is a comprehensive font for the languages of Ethiopia and Eritrea that use the Ethiopic (Ge’ez) script. The style is very traditional, but has been broadened to include a wide range of variant glyphs used by particular language communities.
Dai Banna SIL
Dai Banna SIL is the first of two font families designed for the New Tai Lue script of China and Southeast Asia.
Nokyung
This is a second font for the New Tai Lue script, in a style preferred in some regions. This is a further evolution of a design begun by a former apprentice, Julie Remington. This project also served as a pilot project for a completely open-source font production workflow that is now used by all our projects.
