https://fpcc.ca/stories/updated-bc-sans-font-now-available/
BC Sans 2.0 supports typing in the 34 First Nations languages of B.C.
- Evkob ( @Evkob@lemmy.ca ) 13•1 year ago
That’s so cool! I had never really considered how important fonts are for language preservation in the 21st century where so much language and communication is written on a screen, I’m glad someone’s putting in the work.
- whelmer ( @whelmer@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
This is very cool. My partner works on documenting and preserving languages and I spent a bunch of time recently learning how to create xkbd layouts to get that shit working on Linux. Like the fonts are important but so are the keyboard mappings.
Unicode is a really cool thing.
- blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
Thanks for sharing! This is great. I was just talking with coworkers about the need for this in education. We should be able to accept all Canadian students’ names as written.
As both a font nerd and language nerd, this is very cool! First font of many, I hope.