Ben Mitchell

@ohbendy.bsky.social

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I research and make fonts for Southeast Asian scripts! 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 He/him 🧑‍💻 www.fontpad.co.uk 📷 https://www.flickr.com/photos/ohbendy/albums

Three printed texts in Ta'Ang language using the Tham script, and one inventory of independent vowels, prebase signs, abovemarks, belowmarks, postbase signs, and some other assorted characters including numerals. Overall very similar to the Tham Khuen writing system but with stylistic divergences in some places.
Sign for Panchattatva temple, Arunachal Pradesh, showing an undocumented script for the Aka (Hrusso) language. The letters are mainly O, U and C shapes hanging from a headline with many diacritic dots inside and around the letters.
Futura 100 Myanmar's glyph set for Asho language, in six weights.
Selection of books: The Book of Fallen Trees by Marcus Attwater The Garden of Delights by Amal Singh Silver in the Wood by Emily Test The Owl Men of Shanidar by Coy Hall Dissolution by Nicholas Binge Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler The Ancients by John Larison Seascraper by Benjamin Wood The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
Lao and Thai interpretations of a Benguiat display font and a loopless geometric grotesque. Text reads 'Stranger Things' and 26 November
Photo of paperback book The Garden of Delights by Amal Singh.
Screenshot of text in round, looped letterforms of the Mon-Burmese script.
Myanmar consonants with marks below. Top line shows the medialLa to the right of medialWa. Bottom line shows medialLa to the left of medialWa.
Photograph of twelve books: As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh The Lost Lights of St Kilda by Elisabeth Gifford The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng The Dead Wander in the Desert by Rollan Seisenbayev Hard by a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alier Sáenz The Covenent of Water by Abraham Verghese The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka Victory City by Salman Rushdie The Surviving Sky by Kritika H Rao
Map of Chiang Mai city with headline in Thai typeset in NaN Metrify Thai B bold font.
Image showing the letters used by 22 of the languages spoken in Burma, with the various letterforms preferred by each group
Screenshot of a glyph table showing attestations of each letter of the Tai Laing script from a number of manuscripts.
Inked manuscript from Homalin, Sagaing, written in a rounded form of the Lik Tai script, and with three lines written in a style with large dots to distinguish the appearance.
Two images of illustrated folding books (parabaik) from Mon monasteries in Thailand showing colourful images surrounding text in Pali language written in Thai Mon script.
Wat Analayo, near Phayao, northern Thailand.
Image of various Southeast Asian scripts including stonecut inscriptions, printed typeforms, carved wooden letters, painted shop signs, handwritten manuscripts.
Happy New Year, written in Thai script. Typeface in progress, in a demi-looped style with high contrast and dynamic curves
Various syllables in the maze-like Kwekor script. Here the characters need reordering to keep the prebase vowel, medialRa and medialHa to the left of a medialYa, reordering again to get the vowel and medialRa to the left of a conjunct. Some syllables have colliding strokes which need to be resolved.