![]() ![]() "And Arabic typefaces led us to create the folded ribbon-like gestures that feature in Cymru Wales Serif, namely the d, dd, ch, rh, & – plus the stacked element of the l." #Irish fonts in word how to"The Icelandic ð character provided us with some clues as to how to best tackle our curved d," explained Griffith. Smörgåsbord mimicked the cursive, sweeping forms of Arabic script for the design of the Welsh digraphs ![]() The studio also looked to the digital expression of other minority languages such as Icelandic, as well as the cursive characters of Arabic for cues on how to infuse a typography with a distinctive personality. Nods to Welsh cultural heritage be found in subtle details like the chamfered edges of the Cymru Wales Serif font, which invoke the region's traditional craft of stone letter carving. "We also felt that the introduction of the open bowls added a contemporary and stylistic element that would further enhance the uniqueness of the font without wandering into the territory of pastiche or parody." In open-bowled characters, rounded strokes aren't fully closed "The curved d featured widely across our two Welsh reference texts, alongside open bowled characters, in which the rounded part of letters such as B, g or R isn't fully closed," Griffith told Dezeen. "Good enough reason to set about creating a nation-defining bespoke font family." The curved d features nor just in Welsh but also in other Celtic languages like Scots and Irish Gaelicīeyond the digraphs, the most distinctive character is the d, which has an ascender that curves forwards. "The Welsh alphabet has a total of 28 letters and is blessed with eight digraphs," said Smörgåsbord's creative director and co-founder Dylan Griffith. These feature a combination of two letters such as ph or ll to represent a single sound.ĭue to the lack of dedicated digital characters, these are generally spelled using two individual letters, but they actually represent a single letter – much like a German umlaut – and take up a single box in a crossword. Most notably, the it gives an expression to the digraphs that distinguish the Welsh alphabet from the English one. ![]() The eight digraphs of the Welsh language are stylised both in the serif (above) and the sans font (below) In collaboration with the Colophon Type Foundry, they set about adopting some of the language's unique stylistic traits into a modern font. To imbue the typography with a unique sense of identity and place, the studio went back to some of the oldest surviving Welsh manuscripts, including The Black Book of Carmarthen and The Red Book of Hergest, which date back to the 13th and 14th century respectively. Unlike Cymru Wales Serif (pictured in red), the sans font (pictured in green) features no serifs It features the no-frills Cymru Wales Sans which Smörgåsbord originally designed in 2017, alongside a serif font for longer reads and a designated font for the local transport system. The project was commissioned by the Welsh government as part of a wider rebrand of the country's visual identity. ![]()
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