Kevin King

Excited to share that Lava Syllabics has been awarded a Certificate of Typographic Excellence for #TDC68! Thank you @typedirectors ! • • • Checkout the other winning typeface design entries by @typotheque at oneclub.org/awards/tdcawards • • • You view Lava Syllabics in more detail, and learn more about the Typotheque Syllabics Project at: tptq.com/syllabics • • • #typography #typedesign #syllabics #fonts #tdc

We are excited to present two new font releases: a suite of new Cherokee typefaces created by Cherokee Nation citizen and type designer Chris Skillern ( @tulseytype ), as well as a suite of new Osage fonts developed as a collaboration between Osage Nation citizen and designer Dr. Jessica Harjo ( @weomepe ) and Typotheque. These new script extensions of the November, October, November Stencil and Lava typeface families are tailored to suit the typographic preferences of the Cherokee and Osage community readers. The release of these fonts also marks a special milestone. After five years of community-partnered research with First Nations and Inuit communities in Canada and the United States, and the release of the new Cherokee and Osage fonts, Typotheque is also delighted to be able to present the Indigenous North American Type Collection, a large set of fonts that support the digital access, use, and local typographic expectations for all Indigenous communities in North America and their unique writing systems. Please visit our website to learn more.

We're thrilled to announce that Chris Skillern (@tulseytype ), Kevin King (@calligraphio ), and Leo Vicenti (@lowerearthorigin ) are joining the (re)Creating Turtle Island lecture series for a powerful session on Native Typography! Live Class: August 5th from 3–4:45pm EST | 2–3:45pm CST | 12–1:45pm PST Meet the artists redefining visual language through Indigenous perspectives: Chris Skillern is a type designer based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, specializing in Latin and Cherokee scripts. He founded Tulsey Type, an independent foundry focused on multiscript type design. A Type West graduate, he created Chokecherry and has collaborated with XYZ Type and Cherokee Film on several projects. He designed a custom typeface for the Cherokee-language dub of The Rings of Power and is currently developing new syllabary fonts in partnership with Typotheque. Kevin King is a Canadian typeface designer, typographer, calligrapher, and researcher. He earned his Master’s in Typeface Design with distinction from the University of Reading in 2018. Kevin’s work focuses on supporting minority languages, collaborating directly with Indigenous communities in North America to aid language revitalization. He has contributed to updating the Unified Canadian Syllabics in the Unicode Standard. He also teaches workshops and lectures on type design and calligraphy across Canada and Europe. Leo Vicenti is a designer and educator focused on Indigenous language revitalization through design. He teaches Communication Design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where his work explores the intersection of typography, culture, and community. Vicenti developed the “daanazaa” typeface to support the Jicarilla Apache language and co-leads the Ezhishin Scholarship, supporting Native and First Nation type designers. His practice advocates for decolonizing design education and centering Indigenous perspectives. Discover more and enroll today using the link in bio. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to learn from these incredible voices!

Nuestro siguiente invitado es Kevin King @calligraphio / Our next guest is Kevin King Diseñador tipográfico para @typotheque / Canadian type designer for Typotheque 🌐 Digital Justice for Indigenous Languages / Justicia digital para lenguas originarias 🌐 Problem / Problema 84 Indigenous languages in Canada struggle with tech gaps: broken fonts, missing keyboard inputs, and digital exclusion. 84 lenguas indígenas en Canadá enfrentan exclusión digital: fuentes rotas, teclados incompletos y sistemas que las ignoran. Why it matters / Por qué importa Kevin King understands the importance of bridging these gaps. As a typeface designer and researcher, he’s been working closely with Indigenous communities to ensure their languages are represented in the digital world. Kevin King sabe lo importante que es cerrar estas brechas. Como diseñador de tipografías e investigador, ha trabajado estrechamente con comunidades indígenas para asegurar que sus lenguas estén representadas en el mundo digital. Solution / Solución His work in font development and language revitalization has led to impactful collaborations: Typeface design co-created with Indigenous communities Tools that support language learning while respecting cultural traditions Su trabajo en el desarrollo de fuentes y la revitalización de lenguas ha dado lugar a colaboraciones significativas: Diseño de tipografías co-creado con comunidades indígenas Herramientas que apoyan el aprendizaje de lenguas respetando las tradiciones culturales Be part of the change / Sé parte del cambio At #Multilingüe2025, Kevin will share how type design can be a catalyst for language preservation. En #Multilingüe2025, Kevin compartirá cómo el diseño tipográfico puede ser un catalizador para la preservación de lenguas. 📅 May 23 | 💻 Free/Online 🔗 [LINK EN BÍO /ENLACE IN BIO] "Tech should amplify, not erase, our ancestors' words." / "La tecnología debe amplificar, no borrar, las voces de nuestros ancestros."

Don't forget to book your ticket! If you can't make it to the live presentation, you'll still receive a private link to (re)watch it anytime! Lecture about: Indigenous Language Support, a design process, with @calligraphio Tickets & Info at link in bio, or / The Indigenous languages in North America feature not only a richness in linguistic diversity, but also a wealth of orthographic diversity, unique writing scripts, and typographic conventions not found anywhere else in the world. Despite such a high number of living languages and such graphic richness, Indigenous communities continue to face widespread challenges in actively accessing and using their languages on digital platforms. These barriers stem both from questions around how a community’s orthography must perform for accurate reading and comprehension, whether they have complete representation in the Unicode Standard for their language, and also in how a font shape the orthography in text composition. Typotheque engages in community-based partnerships to conduct research work together with communities to overcome these barriers, but even once these barriers have been overcome, what if Indigenous people in these communities and type designers and foundries wish to make or extend their fonts to support these languages using conventional type design software? In this lecture, Typotheque’s Kevin King shares the process, technical considerations, and design methodologies required for taking such research and implementing it into a typeface design process in order to develop or extend typefaces for Indigenous language communities in North America.

New lecture!!! Indigenous Language Support, a design process With @calligraphio from @typotheque The Indigenous languages in North America feature not only a richness in linguistic diversity, but also a wealth of orthographic diversity, unique writing scripts, and typographic conventions not found anywhere else in the world. Despite such a high number of living languages and such graphic richness, Indigenous communities continue to face widespread challenges in actively accessing and using their languages on digital platforms. These barriers stem both from questions around how a community’s orthography must perform for accurate reading and comprehension, whether they have complete representation in the Unicode Standard for their language, and also in how a font shape the orthography in text composition. Typotheque engages in community-based partnerships to conduct research work together with communities to overcome these barriers, but even once these barriers have been overcome, what if Indigenous people in these communities and type designers and foundries wish to make or extend their fonts to support these languages using conventional type design software? In this lecture, Typotheque’s Kevin King shares the process, technical considerations, and design methodologies required for taking such research and implementing it into a typeface design process in order to develop or extend typefaces for Indigenous language communities in North America. March 21, 2025 from 2:30 pm to 4 pm CET (Paris time) Online, in English, 20€ Tickets at link in bio!

It's fun to pick up a flat brush again and make some Roman Caps! #calligraphy #lettering #roman #art

The deadline for the Ezhishin scholarship/grant, offered by @typedirectors to US/Canadian Indigenous students in typography, type design, or linguistics studies is this week, 24th March 2023! Application link in bio. /supporting-growth/scholarships/

Kevin King, is a Typeface Designer, Typographer, Calligrapher, and Type Researcher. His talk explored the process undertaken by the Typotheque Syllabics Project, building relationships with Syllabics-using indigenous communities in Canada, which contributed to reforming the text standardization for the Unified Canadian Syllabics in the Unicode Standard 🧠✏️🙌 #DesignMatters #DesignMatters22 #DigitalDesign #TheFutureOfDesign #DesignTalks #DesignConference #community #design #storytelling #decolonizingdesign

Welcome to the future… FONT FUTURES! In this episode, we meet Toronto-based type designer, Kevin King @calligraphio , who is working to revitalize and preserve North American Indigenous languages in digital spaces. You’ll hear Kevin’s career origin story, the challenges that exist in digital spaces for minority language support, current barriers to access and the process involved in helping to remove these barriers. You’ll learn the process involved in taking on a project of this magnitude, including a research methodology that helped Kevin reach out to Indigenous communities and work with language keepers directly. Finally, Kevin provides excellent advice for up-and-coming type designers. Link in bio.✨🎙 @gcmtmu @thecreativeschl @typotheque [Image Description: There are 9 images and 1 audio clip. The first image is podcast artwork with illustrated characters of the three individuals included in the podcast today: Kevin King, Nate Evangelista and Diana Varma. The second image is a greyscale photo of Kevin King with clear-rimmed glasses and looking into the distance. The next 6 images are various type specimen samples of Kevin’s typefaces for syllabic language support ‘October’, ‘November’ and ‘Lava’. The final image is Nate wearing glasses and smiling directly into the camera.]

I'm so honoured and grateful to join the excellent lineup of speakers and presenters as part of the first ever conference focused on the typography of North American Indigenous communities: Ezhishin! Thank you so much to Neebin Southall and @samarskaya for organizing! Check out the excellent logotype designed by @tulseytype ! 👉 tdc.org/ezhishin @typedirectors #ezhishin #typography #typedirectorsclub #type #typography #typedesign #languagesupport #indigenous #languagerevitalization

When working on the @typotheque Syllabics project, I was very fortunate to be able to contribute to the Syllabics section of the absolutely beautiful HERE specimen, where a first showing of the new Syllabics fonts appeared. These shots are from the sunny, early fall days in Toronto's High Park, who's return we are dreaming of during the cold winter months. You can buy a copy of this amazing specimen book at typotheque.com . . . Also, check out our Syllabics project if you have not already. Link in bio . . . #type #typography #HEREspecimen