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Tiro Typeworks
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A tiny type foundry located on islands in the Salish Sea, making some of the world’s most widely used fonts. Follow for announcements, specimens, ideas, and occasional photos of the sea.
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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...
Cambria typeface specimen, showing text settings in English, Armenian, Russian, and Greek languages. The text in each example is related to mathematical theorems.
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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New promo specimen images of Cambria and Cambria Math created by Paul Hanslow. See these and others at
www.tiro.com/fonts/cambria
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.]
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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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 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.
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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...
Colourful specimen image showing words and phrases in various weights of the Laconia Cherokee typeface.
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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New Laconia Cherokee specimen images, by Paul Hanslow. See these and more at
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.
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM