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.

Front cover of Zev Handel’s book _Chinese Characters across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese_.
Cambria typeface specimen, showing text settings in English, Armenian, Russian, and Greek languages. The text in each example is related to mathematical theorems.
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...’
Colourful specimen of the Laconia typeface family, showing words and phrases set in the various font weights.
Colourful specimen image showing words and phrases in various weights of the Laconia Cherokee typeface.
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.