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Studio for Transcultural Design-Creative Solutions
Foundry in Vienna that makes gorgeous commercial fonts for African languages. These pictograms are so nice that I will list each of them. The complete font set retails for about 1000 USD. - Akelouke1: cave writing from the Sahara, 5000BC.
- Bete: symbols from Cote d'Ivoire, 1956.
- Mezzouliet: cave writing from the Sahara, 5000BC.
- Indalag: cave writing from the Sahara, 5000BC.
- Adinkra: modern symbols from Ghana.
- Meroitic: Egyptian hieroglyphs.
- Celto-Iberic: Spanish and North-African runes.
- Canary: runes from the Canary Islands.
- Bamum: pictograms from Liberia, 1890 and 1894.
- Loma: Liberian script, 1930.
- Vai: Liberian script, 1894. The Vai script was devised by Momulu Duwalu Bukele in about 1833 (Near Cape Mount, Liberia).
- Nsibidi: a complex Nigerian system of pictograms and ideograms, known as Nsibidi (or Nsiberi) has been used traditionally in the cross river area of Nigeria, especially among the Ekoi, Igbo and Ibibio.
- Nubian: Ethiopian script.
- Amharic: Another Ethiopian script.
- Ibo Geneva Style: Geneva with proper diacritics for Ibo.
- Nigerian Times.
- Pan African Arial Style.
- Orisha Arial Style.
- Djuka: A pictogram language from Suriname, 1910.
- Voodoo (Veve): A particularly elegant set of pictograms found in Haiti.
- Abakuá: Pictograms from Cuba, 1980.
- Cabbal: Pictograms from Tobago, 1990.
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African fonts ⦿
Type in Austria ⦿
Dingbats (original) ⦿
Hieroglyphic fonts ⦿
Celtic/Gaelic fonts ⦿
Rune fonts ⦿
Type in Cuba ⦿
Type design in Suriname ⦿
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