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• Post #2484876

  A really nice article about our friend Fallou Ngom, who was an important advisor to us when we were designing Kigelia Arabic. It's great to see word is getting out about his vital research on African Ajami and the series of online archives he has built up. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/fallou-ngom-discovers-ajami-african-writing-system/

• Post #2484874

  Pics from our recent working trip to West Africa are on our Instagram account. In chronological order: 1. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnmdx4xMqqI/ 2. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnpSQIBLSBm/ 3. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnw72PioyFM/ 4. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoIEjqWLObA/ 5. https://www.instagram.com/p/CoLINFZuiUO/

• Post #2484872

  Right-to-left, connected scripts began performing much better in Adobe products last year, so we’re pleased to announce that we’ve added Kigelia’s Adlam and N’ko complements to our offering at Adobe Fonts. The entire family is available now. https://fonts.adobe.com/foundries/jamrapatel

• Post #2484869

  New in the Google Play Store: the keyboard we developed for using the fonts we made of the Sunuwar script of Eastern Nepal and Sikkim, India. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamra_patel.sunuwarkeyboard

• Post #2484868

  We've updated the ADLaM Display font we designed last year with a Latin complement. It's available for download here: https://bit.ly/423RsLY And while you’re there, read the fascinating story and watch the videos about the ADLaM script! More info about the font here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CrlfHEJOnNu/

• Post #2484867

  Just finished (for now): the first digital fonts of the Gbékoun writing system, produced under the guidance from the Fon community in the West African country of Benin. We followed up with a keyboard, also to their specifications, to make text input and digital content creation possible.

• Post #2484865

  Neil gave a workshop in the “ADLaM Romanization for Library Cataloging” webinar by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association. The video is online here: https://tinyurl.com/mun57p8t Neil’s workshop, “Technological Tools: Development and Demonstrations,” is at 22:52 – 36:16.

• Post #2484864

  ADLaM Display, the font we designed with Andrew Footit for Microsoft, is available now at Google Fonts @googlefonts. It contains ADLaM and Latin complements. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/ADLaM+Display

• Post #2484863

  Another great Igbo story book published by Ọkpara House in Chicago, which uses our typeface Kigelia throughout. “Anyanwụ” tells the story of why the sun lives in the sky and features endearing illustrations by Ben Onuorah. Written by: Obiora Nwazota Illustrator: Ben Onuorah Typefaces: Headlines — Swear (James Edmondson @ohnotypeco) Body — Kigelia Pics of individual pages on our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx5yZTTu2uB/

• Post #2484862

  @Okay @ohnotypeco We're assuming that. The colophon states that Unyimeabasi Udoh did the cover design and typesetting with Nick Adam of Span in Chicago.

• Post #2484861

  One of the projects we’ve been working on pro bono for the past few years is beginning to bear fruit. The N’ko script has attained “Basic” status in Unicode CLDR v.44. Neil collaborated on this with the World Organization for the Development of N’ko and also acted as liaison to the Unicode Consortium. The status determines how well languages are supported on laptops, phones, and other computing devices. https://tinyurl.com/4afuzspe Github: https://tinyurl.com/yk6vffy4

• Post #2484860

  Our article “African ʿAjamī in the Digital Environment: Typographic and Technological Challenges” is now accessible online and will be available in print in 2024. It's one of several chapters written by scholars of the Arabic script in Africa in a special two-volume series of “Islamic Africa” from Brill. (A few of the issues described in our chapter were briefly outlined in our presentation at TypeCon in August.) https://tinyurl.com/5fvbwkfh

• Post #2484859

  Well, we finally got around to updating and refocussing our website. Now it's a better reflection of the work we’ve been doing for the past seven years. https://www.jamra-patel.com

• Post #1565678

  Just published: IDEA magazine’s latest issue looks at the work of Toshi Omagari (@tosche_e), international type design at Typotheque (@typotheque), and features an article about our Kigelia typeface family for Africa. IDEA is a quarterly magazine published in Tokyo, Japan since 1953 that focuses on graphic design and typography. http://www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_magazine/idea-no-403/