Athelas (typeface) explained

Athelas
Style:	Serif
Date:	2008
Creator:	Veronika Burian Jose Scaglione
Foundry:	TypeTogether
Latin:	yes
Greek:	yes
Cyrillic:	yes
Arabic:	yes

Athelas is a serif typeface designed by Veronika Burian and Jose Scaglione and intended for use in body text.^[1] Released by their company TypeTogether in 2008, Burian and Scaglione described Athelas as inspired by British fine book printing.^{[2] [3]}

Athelas is included as a system font in Apple's macOS operating system and as a default font in its Apple Books e-books application.^{[4] [5]} It won joint first prize for best Latin-alphabet body text face at the Granshan International Type Design Competition in 2008.^[6] It is named after a healing herb in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.^[7] Cyrillic characters were later added to the font family, designed by Tom Grace, and monotonic Greek characters designed by Irene Vlachou.^{[8] [9]}

In 2017 TypeTogether released an Arabic extension to Athelas.^[10] The new script extension was designed by Sahar Afshar, a type designer and researcher from Iran.

External links

• Identifont sample
• TypeTogether commercial release

Notes and References

1. Web site: Version 1.5 Improves Typography in iBooks on iPad and iPhone - The FontFeed (Web Snapshot) . https://web.archive.org/web/20120111023309/http://fontfeed.com/archives/version-1-5-improves-typography-in-ibooks-onipad-and-iphone/ . 11 January 2012 . dead.
2. Web site: Scaglione. Jose. Athelas fue seleccionada por la Sociedad Argentina de Bibliófilos. Scaglione Design. 22 September 2016. Athelas is an attempt to go back towards the beauty of fine book printing, inspired in Britain's literary classics..
3. Web site: Litherland . Caren . TypeTogether . Communication Arts . 9 October 2014 . 9 April 2019.
4. Web site: OS X: Fonts included with Mavericks.
5. Web site: New Font Choices in iBooks 1.5 - 52 Tiger. 11 December 2011.
6. Web site: 2008 Granshan Type Design Competition Winners.
7. Web site: Font swap in iBooks. Glenn. Fleishman. 12 December 2011.
8. Web site: Athelas Font | Try, Buy and Download | TypeTogether.
9. Web site: Athelas - Tom Grace, typeface design and font development.
10. Web site: Athelas Arabic Font TypeTogether. 2020-08-11. www.type-together.com. en-us.