Name | Scripts | Designer | Foundry | Release Date | Sources | Info |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kamama | Cherokee | Monique Ortman (Cherokee) | in progress | “This typeface was designed as part of my thesis for Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Graphic Design. I will be weaving type specimen mat posters for my thesis exhibition in October. Once released, this will be available for free to all Cherokee.” — Ortman on Instagram | ||
Meli | Cherokee | Chris Skillern (Cherokee) | Tulsey Type | in progress | A student project for the Type West Online certificate program. Specimen of two weights. | |
Goni | Jicarilla Apache | Leo Vicenti (Jicarilla Apache) | in progress | A student project for the Type West Online certificate program. | ||
Chokecherry | Cherokee | Chris Skillern | Tulsey Type | in progress | “Chokecherry is a lively sans for Latin and Cherokee, with influences ranging from handwriting to sign painting. … This is Tulsey Type’s first step in addressing the lack of display type that supports the Cherokee syllabary.” | |
Skeena Indigenous | Canadian Syllabics (all) | Paul Hanslow, John Hudson | Tiro Typeworks | 2025 | ||
Euphemia | Canadian Syllabics (all)Inuktitut | Ross Mills | Tiro Typeworks | 2023 (original, 2004) | One of the first Canadian Syllabics fonts to be bundled with operating systems. | |
Laconia Cherokee | Cherokee | Ross Mills, Anna Štepanovská | Tiro Typeworks | 2023 | “In addition to the standard unicameral orthography characters, the fonts also include a set of lowercase syllabics as found in some historical publications and occasional modern use.” | |
Lava | Canadian Syllabics (all)InuktitutBlackfoot | Kevin King | Typotheque | 2022 | Background, Typotheque Syllabics Project, Typotheque Syllabics Project video | |
November | Canadian Syllabics (all)InuktitutBlackfoot | Kevin King | Typotheque | 2022 | Background, Typotheque Syllabics Project, Typotheque Syllabics Project video | |
October | Canadian Syllabics (all)InuktitutBlackfoot | Kevin King | Typotheque | 2022 | Background, Typotheque Syllabics Project, Typotheque Syllabics Project video | |
Radio Canada | Canadian Syllabics (all) | Jacques Le Bailly | 2021 | Initially designed in 2017 for CBC/Radio-Canada, the national public radio and television broadcaster. Expanded in 2021 to include a wide range of latinized Canadian Indigenous scripts. | ||
Pangea Afrikan | LushootseedNavajo | Christoph Koeberlin | Fontwerk | 2021 | Permanently free of charge. | |
Cascadia Code | Salishan | Aaron Bell | Microsoft | 2020 | Initially released in 2019. Added support for the Salishan languages of the Pacific Northwest in 2020. | |
Ilisarniq | Inuktitut | Étienne Aubert Bonn | Coppers and Brasses | 2018 | The Ilisarniq typeface family was designed for the Kativik School Board, the only school board of Nunavik. | |
Canada1500 | Canadian Syllabics (all) | Ray Larabie | Typodermic | 2017 | ||
Fedra Sans | Inuktitut | Peter Biľak | Typotheque | 2015 | “In 2015, Avataq Cultural Institute, the Inuit cultural organisation of Nunavik (Northern Québec, Canada), commissioned Typotheque to create an Inuktitut version of Fedra Sans for the organisation’s purposes.” — Typotheque | |
Phoreus Cherokee | Cherokee | Mark Jamra | TypeCulture | 2014 | The first Cherokee font family to include italics. Video, Typographica review, Portland Press Herald, AIGA Eye on Design | |
Huronia | Canadian Syllabics (all)InuktitutCherokee | Ross Mills | Tiro Typeworks | 2013 | ||
Explora | Cherokee | Rob Leuschke | TypeSETit | 2012 | ||
Lushootseed School & Sulad | Lushootseed | Juliet Shen | The Tulalip Tribes | 2009 | Commissioned by the Tulalip Tribes of Washington. More info. “Native American Fonts and Tribal Sovereignty”, Book Club of California Quarterly, July 2018 “Aesthetic Innovation in Indigenous Typefaces: Designing a Lushootseed Font”, GLIMPSE, Issue 7 | |
Kayases | BlackfootCanadian Syllabics (all)CherokeeInuktitut | Chris Harvey | 2006 | |||
Plantagenet Cherokee | Cherokee | Ross Mills | Tiro Typeworks | 2002 | One of the first Cherokee fonts to be bundled with operating systems. | |
Uqammaq | Inuktitut | Ross Mills | Tiro Typeworks | 2002 | ||
Pigiarniq | Inuktitut | Ross Mills | Tiro Typeworks | 2001 | The official typeface of the Nunavut government. |