Nunavut, a small isolated region in Canada, has one of the lowest population rates in the world. Even though the population is small, the citizens of Nunavut are fluent in four languages – French, English, Innuinaqtun and Inuktitut. The typeface, Pigiarniq, was designed a few years ago enabling the citizens of Nunavut to use the four languages all in a uniform matter, which I believe was mean’t for web. Although something relatively simple as font is overlooked in our society, Pigiarniq proves to provide a accessible means of obtaining information for Nunavut citizens and it’s future generation.
What an amazing project. Do you know how it came about? Were designers approached by a government or were designers seeking out change for this region? Neither?
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ReplyDeleteThe Nunavut government commissioned (correct me if I’m wrong) Tiro Typeworks to create the typeface. The company has also created Euphemia & Uqammaq. Both were made for the Inuktitut and Cree tribes to be read in their native languages.
ReplyDeleteIt was Tiro typeworks who created the typeface. It looks like they’ve also created a keyboard driver to enable the fonts to work on the Nunavut citizens computers. Here’s the link.
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If you download the font it should work on your computer. There’s no need to install the driver.
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