Help us publish a book on Armenian typography—tracing its history, sharing new typefaces, and celebrating a unique script through community effort.

A new project led by Chris Skillern with Typotheque presents new contemporary Cherokee typefaces informed by historical research and community feedback.

Typotheque is proud to announce the release of new Cherokee and Osage fonts, and a complete Indigenous North American Type Collection.

Each summer, Typotheque takes time to recharge. Before our break, we share seven books from our studio shelves that continue to inspire our work.

Terrassa is a modular, architectural typeface that blends geometric precision with expressive design. Inspired by technical lettering, it offers versatile styles, variable features and spatial elegance.

The geometric nature of Latin letters, which originated in ancient Roman epigraphic capitals, has been much studied since the Renaissance, and architects have long drawn upon this connection, between ancient styles and modern buildings. In this essay, we discuss the link between geometry, architecture and letterforms throughout history, from the early days of the Latin alphabet to the more recent 20th-century trends in architectural lettering.

Explore Typotheque’s CJK font collection—meticulously crafted to support the GB 18030-2022 standard, including Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, offering region-specific variants for authentic East Asian typography.​

Designing a system of 40,000 characters across nine weights is an extremely complex process undertaken by a large design team. The challenge lies in maintaining consistency in the design approach and structural harmony while ensuring an efficient production process. Zheng Chuyang, leader of this major project, shares his perspective.

Chinese characters, or Han characters, vary across East Asia due to regional language evolution and reform. Although Unicode unifies them into a single Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) block, fonts also need to align with regional preferences. This article looks at the reasons behind these variations and how to go about choosing the right fonts for a particular project.

This article explores how stroke thickness affects perceived weight in Chinese characters, explaining the complexity of designing balanced, readable type across various weights and styles.

This article highlights the typographic differences between Latin and CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) typography. It covers vertical and horizontal text orientation, line height requirements, text alignment and hyphenation practices, distinct rules for line breaks and punctuation placement.

Pristine is a charismatic multiscript family with a warm personality and distinctive teardrop terminals that lend a friendly feel to headlines and short text.