03/12/2024
As part of an ongoing partnership between Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Nation and Typotheque, governed by a Memorandum of Understanding, we are proud to announce that two new capital letters for Haíɫzaqvḷa (Heiltsuk language) have been formally published in version 16.0 of the Unicode Standard. We worked together with Heiltsuk Revitalization to prepare a proposal to the Unicode Technical Committee requesting these new characters be added to the Unicode Standard. They were approved, and have now been formally published in Unicode version 16.0, released this past September 2024.
To share this news, Heiltsuk Revitalization and Typotheque have created a video in order to present the story of how the publication of these characters was achieved and why it was necessary.
To learn more, please read the full announcement on the Heiltsuk Revitalization website and visit our Indigenous North American Typography Research project’s website.
As a reminder, this work is completely funded internally by Typotheque. When you purchase our retail fonts, part of the proceeds from every sale go towards funding this work. For more information, please visit check out the Typotheque Club.
