Tiro Typeworks Articles

This short text was written in May 2015, in response to an invitation from Onur Yazicigil to contribute a statement on the theme of that year’s ISType conference.

Since 1998, Tiro Typeworks has developed numerous typefaces for Microsoft Corporation, including award winning multilingual text types, groundbreaking complex display faces, and user-interface and branding fonts for major global writing systems.

The first part of this article was originally written for Communication Arts magazine, and published in their May/June 2007 issue.

I encountered the phrase ‘fragile literacies’ in Mirela Ivanova’s recent book about the development of early Cyrillic writing cultures, Inventing Slavonic.3 Ivanova was describing the first hundred years during which the Cyrillic script evolved in communi…

Towards a general model of OpenType Layout This is an updated version of an article originally written in April 2014 as a contribution to discussions around shaping engines and text layout.

Pim Rietbroek, 20 September 1961 – 18 September 2024.

Hwæt… A new website, it turns out, is something like a typeface: a thing that rapidly expands beyond the initial idea, ends up being more complicated than anticipated, and takes a lot longer than hoped.