Athelas (typeface)

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Athelas (typeface)

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][4]

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Designer(s)Veronika Burian
Jose Scaglione
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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.[5][6] It won joint first prize for best Latin-alphabet body text face at the Granshan International Type Design Competition in 2008.[7] It is named after a healing herb in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.[8] Cyrillic characters were later added to the font family, designed by Tom Grace, and monotonic Greek characters designed by Irene Vlachou.[2][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.

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